Deadmonton

I am moving back home across the country....my time here in Edmonton was good, and sad.....and happy, and bad.......time to move on, I guess......

 

Gateway to the north, where oil kings reign

I lived there alone an endured so much pain

Heartache and loss, but the joy of good friends

Though I say I’ll return, I may never see again

The city of a million isolated worker drone

This place I have lived, this place I called home

We lived life for the clock and made our paycheques

Met lots of girls, didn’t have much sex

Found the girls here too weird or distant for my taste

So I just went on working, let my talents to waste

The sad cold concrete that stares back at me

The rides on the bus, ailing on the LRT

Concerts and bars and things that I seen

The places I went to, the places I’d been

Buildings and people, houses and cars

Days in the sunshine, nights beneath stars

Hookers and cats are getting killed here

So claim these headlines, written so clear

The gas gods burn from towers in the east

Their temples are massive like a great slouching beast

I am begged for change as I walk down the street

I keep walking by, I shuffle my feet

Everyone wants help, they would pay more

Emblazoned on signs, in front of each store

City of a million whose souls have been sold

All for the worship of land of black gold

Money-grubbers, greedy, exhausted and pricks

Big city dwellers thinking like hicks

A thousand different tongues wag their own tune

In disdain, I look at it and know I leave soon

Go back to the home that once I knew

That is the place that I am going to

Land to the east, in the rust-belt gloom

Back to where I had once known my doom

Yet still it is home, and all that I know

I cannot wait for my time to go

Leave this cold place, so good once mine

I have done what I could, I have done my time

I yet may return, or again never see

So it is done, it is my destiny

All this I may miss, the good and the bad

But never forget the times that I’ve had

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Its perfect. I think that the word usage was wonderful. I can feel your feelings.Very good description all in all good poem