Years you long to most forget
Are the same years that never fade
How their haunting memories sting
Leaving eternal blisters of shame

Adolescence hides behind corners
Forever trailing swaying directions
How its embarrassments still linger
Regardless of new found perfections

All the old places and tired faces
Believed lost in the eroding past
How they always someday reappear
Within another heartbroken flashback

Continuing to live under the shadow
Of that saddened figure of long ago
How I tried to put him behind me
But he remains attached to my soul

What do these newest glories matter
What escape does the future hold
When so many who matter most
Remember only this frail child of old

- 12/21/07

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