Woodlands

This new town flat Twenty years since Our last stay here Sad and forlorn In the passage Of time between So much has changed Yet still unchanged Once we lived here With happy strides Near the causeway North and remote Woodlands new town Is mellow now Just an old town Ageing surely Our car ride brought A flashback glimpse Old corridors Where sun streams fall Old memories Awkward tension Hollow feelings Too much, too late Change distorts time Space is too strange Purge the divide Live now only Swift departure From awkward feel Time surely heals Learn to forget Going back hurts Too much strain Old memories Crumble to dust Leon Enriquez 10 May 2015 Singapore