Ghost Town Memories

While wand'ring ghost town scenes of memories Loose mind like shutters bang in channeled thoughts Old haunting spirits restless and distraught Now roam deserted streets like tumbleweeds Dirt devils funnel, scattering dead seeds As rattling chains of broken bonds stretch taut Dark tortured faceless shadows, though not sought Appear in screenless windows taunting me Behind saloons in alleys where we played Lie trash cans spilled of hope and broken dreams Discarded remnants of relationships Have all but disappeared from time's decay Those youthful days spent by the sun dried stream Are now recalled in silent somberness an original poem by the "poemdog" Daniel Turner