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Been a long while since I was back in the city   (at work) Must be around two and a half years The Old haunts... their all haunted now Pubs I used to visit...frequent and frequently   get a little bit drunk/tipsy in I wonder am I still in there drinking still I feel like if I went in I might see   myself sitting in some corner there... My favourite restaurant too where I used to   eat Every Friday afternoon with my       burger  black coffee and chips Sitting in the window looking out at the   world going by, the people passing Glad to have made it through another week Glad to have survived, glad to still be alive I almost expect to see myself sitting there   now..... So many have gone, so many have left...   retired, some even passed away So many new younger faces around the place I wonder "Am I too, on my way out" Wherever I go all I hear are echoes of other   times See faces that remind me of someone else It's like Life is moving relentlessly along But I've been left behind some place. I seen a face in the street that looked   like myself when I was young I just stood there and watched him disappear   into the crowd There's such an unreal ghostly feeling about   the place It's so strange coming back after being at   home alone for so long.
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Mar 5, 2023
Mar 5, 2023 at 8:48 AM UTC
Ghost Land
Been a long while since I was back in the city   (at work) Must be around two and a half years The Old haunts... their all haunted now Pubs I used to visit...frequent and frequently   get a little bit drunk/tipsy in I wonder am I still in there drinking still I feel like if I went in I might see   myself sitting in some corner there... My favourite restaurant too where I used to   eat Every Friday afternoon with my       burger  black coffee and chips Sitting in the window looking out at the   world going by, the people passing Glad to have made it through another week Glad to have survived, glad to still be alive I almost expect to see myself sitting there   now..... So many have gone, so many have left...   retired, some even passed away So many new younger faces around the place I wonder "Am I too, on my way out" Wherever I go all I hear are echoes of other   times See faces that remind me of someone else It's like Life is moving relentlessly along But I've been left behind some place. I seen a face in the street that looked   like myself when I was young I just stood there and watched him disappear   into the crowd There's such an unreal ghostly feeling about   the place It's so strange coming back after being at   home alone for so long.
Wrote this the first day after returning to work in the city after the Covid restrictions had been lifted, was very ghostly going back. Had been away (working from home) for over 2 years.
#city#pubs#restaurants#ghostly#feeling#unreal
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bardo
62/M/Ireland
Mar 5, 2023
Mar 5, 2023 at 8:48 AM UTC
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