Beware of Memory Lane

Driving down memory lane

is a dangerous path filled with

thousand-year-old trees whose

roots snake in and out of the road

every other thumb-jerking stranger

looks a tad bit too familiar, with

tattered clothing as if they waited

for you to return,

You knew them in another life and

maybe you should still remember

but the trees are an off-green shade

and red mixes with blue and you

wave them off as a hobo or

two-timing scoundral which

maybe they were in another life too.

The road down memory lane is lonely

and others who ride along may not take

the same road at the same time

and they giggle in the back about the bumps

and the rain but you see everything in

a different shade.

The whole Earth has turned more blue

and black and you realize the path is quite

familiar but taken from your favorite classic

movie

They ask why you're so silent and you say

it's because good and bad things happened here.

And part of that still lingers in the air

and chokes you.

Careful when driving down memory lane

it's more of an entire city and world that

no one but your eyes can see

And the world is suddenly full of ghosts that

possess those around you and fill your thoughts

with scenes long since dead

Careful when you're old enough to realize

that lots of these roads exist.