THIS IS THE PLACE

THIS IS THE PLACE

This is the place where I had been

Bright younger souls live there now

Inhabiting those once familiar rooms

Where we once talked and joked

Rebuilding our brave new world

Wondering what the future held

Where we drank our mugs of tea

Where we toasted our sandwiches

Knowing it all yet knowing nothing

This is the place where I once was

This is the place where I had been

The world as I knew it now soon gone

Embraced by younger replacements

Becoming their own variations of us

Meeting their own new found people

Making their own lifelong friends

Where once we sat and drank and laughed

Talking late into our deepest dark nights

Joking in-jokes no one else understood

This is the place where we once were

This is the place where I had been

The wise know you should not go back

To see such old familiar personal spaces

Still much the same but o-so different

Finding your replacements in rooms

Living now as we once lived ourselves

Not noticing at all you’re no longer there

Not caring about your quick-cut absence

Life moves on and life coolly forgets us

This is the place I no longer belong

MAWH, June 2018