Kings of Leon - Last Mile Home acoustic version (Lyrics video)

Heard this tonight and it spoke to the poet in me. It took me to a place called yesterday. Most of us have such a place in our lives. It proves to be a source of both great happiness and at times extreme sorry. I'm feeling a little melancholy tonight and was reminded of the words of a pastor/poet from the middle ages named John Donne, "Tell me where all past years are."

Then I recalled a poem I wrote a few years ago called, I Can never go Back.


I Can never go Back


There was a time, a season
a period in my life, when it
was enough to know the fish
were biting and school was
out for summer.

That's when boys played
hard and outside all day.
It was Baseball, Football
Hide-N-Go Seek, 'Ready
or not here I come.

The rules were simple then.
We had to be in before dark,
wash our hands before dinner
and sitting around the table
was like being in church.

But, that was before the city
and an interstate encroached
upon the sacred battle fields
of a boys imagination.

The fields and woods I once
roamed have faded away and
when I look for the place I once
called home, it's no longer there.
And now, I can never go back.

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