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Swan Songs
Poems
Jan 2021
Heritage
In a simpler time
I watched a raging fire
As it swallowed every home
All except my own
With the passing years
New houses appeared
While mine began to fade
Crumble and decay
Today I returned
To the street that burned
One empty block lay bare
Where my home used to stand
I felt suddenly compelled
To rebuild what time had felled
A house of stone and clay
That time could not erase
I came home alone
To a house I didn’t know
I touched the wooden walls
The space felt cold and small
It smelled of childhood
And I thought of firewood
#poem
#story
#childhood
#nostalgia
#home
#time
#family
#wistful
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