MOBILE HOME

MOBILE HOME

You can’t go home again;
the people have all gone.
Even those who stayed behind
have moved their lives along.

Those at home
watch Fox News,
call you liberal.
Or is it
the other way around?

You can’t go home again.
Old places are
somehow not the same.
The lives in which they figure -- 
have unfamiliar
names.

Even your old school
does not remember you.
It’s a museum now,
with other things to do.

You can’t go home again.
Nostalgia muddies memories
of what was, or who,
even you.

To be homed, I recommend,
build now and tend
those cherished places,
memories, friends,
the near and the dear.
Keep them close
as you wend
your way ‘tween there and here.

DRK, 3/28/11