A Stranger Place

I'm just a stranger here the neighbors smiling at me from ear to ear I've been gone for far too long even though it's only the first year There are sparrows walking this ground a scarecrow stand forgotten and on the porch a dead coon hound This is a nexus, a rip in my common space I'm standing amidst this crowd but I'm no where to be found And raindrops are falling beneath my feet A mother losing her way hangs up her bedroom sheet I want to run away from this melancholy shame but there are so many faces here forcing us to meet The sharper the knife the duller the man My daddy had once said this but how was I to understand that a man aint just a body walking around a town and that if a life he takes then he's to be judged by the land There is blood on the highway, yet no body to be seen all these empty ghosts here must make it Halloween but I'm just another puppet opening up a closet just to see the backyard to find out what it might mean