Best Lossplaces Poems
I left so long ago
Dragged away to a place I could never stand
1095 minutes ago to be exact
Everything I was was left behind
Friends I will never see again
Family I talk to way too rarely
Was it worth it to try a new life?
Am I any happier?
I went back not long ago
Things have changed
Places I knew and loved are gone
Torn down in the name of progress
Nothing is the same
People I knew no longer remember me
Their faces are no longer familiar
The life of youth is long gone
I try to remember my former life
The places I that made up my life
The people I loved and lost
After thirty years and hundreds of miles
Age has faded the memories it couldn’t erase
Even my last few memories are fading
Did those places ever really exist?
Did I ever really know those people?
I may never know and maybe I shouldn’t
Did I ever have a home there?
Should I try to go back and find those places, those people?
Or is it simply too late?