"Is This the Town "

Photo courtesy of Del Sarlette

Is this the town where I used to live?

Is this the place where I 

walked elm covered streets 

to places familiar. 

Is this the town where

 I spent my time.  

This town is now 

empty and lost. 

The faces are there, hidden 

inside houses behind 

curtain drawn windows. 

Inside they shelter, keeping busy 

doing everything and often 

nothing at all. 

Are these the faces that 

I used to know. 

These faces are now 

suspended in time. 

We live in a world that has been 

postponed for a while. 

Nature is aloof to our petty 

situation. It continues, it evolves,

it moves to the same rhythm 

as it always has. 

Is this the world that 

I used to know?

The world now takes 

time to repair.