Years had passed I see yonder, Withered leaves on the ground And dyed coffee envelopes With an old Paris stamp that marks the date of 1934 It sits beside a dismal brown bitten apple In a small abode In the mammoth province of Branderburg Prussia The rickety Tudor house cries in silence The ghost of the past beseeched to be free Cobwebs stifled my hands In opening the forgone mail Bundles that haven’t received by the receiver “Let’s ride the rails”, he said The young deep voice echoed in my head My weak knees quivered “We should get going” the two ladies in white scrubs held my arms One step at time, we went in the wheels That would take me back to this new place I could never call home The declination of the economy and the war broke us But the memory didn’t die, it never did