AFTER A DECADE.

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atmarajan

AFTER A DECADE.

Post by atmarajan » Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:29 pm

:hearts:
After a decade and a half you return home
like a ghost to its haunt:
The son of once upon a time on his land of long ago.

Like a trespassing guest, you, homesick ghost,
tread the path with circumspect steps.

Behind every face you see another from the past.
In every voice you hear, you hear another very distant.
Among the people you meet, you meet an absent you.
Behind every life you feel a death;
every presence an absence.

As you walk on the land of now,
your feet feeling your land of long ago,
the light of a smile shows up on your lips:
you are walking in the abode of absence;
an absence once very present:
now not real but surreal

As a ghost you can haunt only the ghost land.


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Re: AFTER A DECADE.

Post by heinzs » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:02 pm

I have felt that upon returning to my once daily haunts to find them somehow "changed" beyond what time itself had done. I guess there's truly no going back.

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Re: AFTER A DECADE.

Post by TBunsie » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:02 pm

I liked that very much, like reading a journey, with a sense of de ja vu.

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Re: AFTER A DECADE.

Post by heinzs » Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:41 am

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