memory's homecoming

Those who know to love
knows love has no age
when feeling terribly lonely on wet, dry afternoons
the only comfort is in the cat's frantic movements.

There were evenings, people used to come
to watch the open hair
forming long lines and huge cues
stalls, new shops, noises used to open along roads
they stood holding tea cups and munching dry snacks,
awe in everyone's eyes.

When the insides of the house were mysteries unsolved
outside, mysteries unraveled.

I still sing today with my guitar and my band,
Still keep faith in my voice,
I still stay awake in countless nights
not flowered or showered with love
but piecing together broken edges
it ends nights and morning dawns
morning ends too to afternoons

when i get ready for a new day
with new hope, existence and bits and piece songs
when coffee's relentless attacks clear the haze
everything becomes clear
then i find a familiar scent outside the door
a scent exactly twenty years late(later)
sweat mixed manhood which attracts me
I look at the sky and its purple hue tells me
it's already evening

I forget my umbrella
that day, the day before that day.


© Nothing Personal. April 14, 2011.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Those who know to love
knows love has no age

no that is true words of wisdom... it is amazing how a certain smell, taste or sound(like a song) cane transport us back in time in a flash.

[Siddhartha]

When it comes down to the sheer delight of words, you are matchless NP. This write evokes nostalgia sad foregone and long forgotten remembrances as only you can. The staid and laid back past juxtaposed with the hectic and cruel present, this one is another masterpiece.

P.S. - Since your profile was closed I couldn't even say thanks for the extremely kind reviews...You are a lifeline NP, then, now and always.

[paul]

beautiful. excellent flow. and a sad beauty to it.

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

Delightful and safe, I imagine you on a porch, with an old man smoking a pipe. Daring imagery and corrective flow, a good read, well done.