Scattered.......God Knows where.
Time is a vacuum it sucks
in only one direction......Gone!
All of those we once knew without
warning disappear from our lives,
as the years are whisked away.
Kids I grew up with, never saw them again
sure Vietnam got a few, others just
moved away like me. But I grew up
in the projects, there were thirty-five kids
per block times 50 blocks of
Veterans Housing projects.
A gift to our soldier daddies
they were rather ratty by the time
my dad got his piece of the cheap
but the kids.... where did they go??
Oh, I know Sharon died of a drug overdose,
and Dani's been married twice and divorced
but the bulk of the gang I hung with
has been severed and swallowed by time.
Then there are the old girlfriends
I feel like some Bermuda triangle
sucked all of my past lovers into oblivion.
I have wandered many vast places
and never ever run into an old girlfriend,
what a joy it would be to do so,
I am a romantic, they all still mean
so much to me, they helped guide me
to what I am today but all I have
is some old Polaroids and a handful
of memories and letters from each one.
All tucked away lest they too get
sucked away like the girls that they portray.
I have whole lists of people who
disappeared forever, Guys I knew in the corps,
Guys I played in bands with, people I worked
and sweated with, even the kids I taught,
all vanished from the face of the earth.
Is there a concentration camp somewhere
that holds them all where they concentrate
on everything but ever bumping into me again.
They said you can't ever go back,
but they don't tell you that so many of
the folks in your past that matter
won't be sharing in your future at all