Past Dwellers (The Lost)

We tossed you aside when the buildings were torn down,

sibilant tongues from the tenements of this town, 

torn souls like lascerated wallpaper

hanging in mock bannered strips

to celebrate demolition.

There were pends and alleys, wynds and loans

where you went, ill remembered.

Cobbles uprooted like knocked out teeth,

via dolorosa gleaming with long gone dew

from evil days.

I have taken away these street names 

to confuse you,

to file away unfounded lives

from black and white days and prayer.

A hometown blighted by maze lost ghosts

never finding the way home.

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