Lost Childhood Memories
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After living in Mobile Alabama for almost 10 years, I decided to move back to New Jersey. I was born in the Atlantic City Inlet, where I lived until I was 14. My parents then moved to Northfied, New Jersey. After being in the Army for 20 years I retired in Alabama. I moved back to New Jersey in 1998, that is when I found all of my childhood memories gone. Friends and other writers told me they liked the poem but, it is so sad.
Where have all of my childhood memories gone?
I often see visions from an earlier time
Imbedded deep within my mind,
They take me back to my boyhood days,
Where everything was done in simpler ways.
I once went looking for familiar places,
To help me remember the past,
But there was nothing I could find
That was standing from an earlier time,
I did not find a house I once called a home,
I found no school, no familiar streets,
And childhood friends are grown and gone,
Sometimes urban renewal can be very cruel
And keep us from remembering the past.
Copyright © Don Pettinelli | Year Posted 2018
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