Not The Town I Knew

The kids and their smiles running with bats and balls

All trampled by these tall concrete monsters

The streets with bicycle races, beautiful mistakes with trees as witness

All bulldozed and blacked out by the soot of fatal tar highways

The flora and fauna of the school that kindled my existence

Traded juvenile blooming for a manufactory fucking their brains

Sidekicks bid adieu, their old men had to make ends meet

And the city close by hit a home run selling extra wheat

Trying to find the jigsaw pieces of my childhood stories

All I could notice is that they are now misplaced places

It's time that I leave too, for what's left here that I call mine

It is a silent drive through the town kissing it goodbye

Passing the road sign ‘Thank you for visiting’,

I could only ask, "Would I see you again?"