The Old Homeplace Revisited (Unmetered Rhyming Verse) by Mike Williams 04/28/2016 @ 11:22 A.M.

Down a street of shadows, 
I observe the dark night. 
Phantoms forgot fill my mind, 
The old homeplace distantly alight. 
I can't tame the ghosts, 
Which swim inside my head. 
They whirl in wild abandon, 
Of the dearly departed dead. 

I move among the past, 
In the present quite transfixed. 
Thoughts of yesterday linger on, 
As I am temporarily bewitched. 
I see a familiar face, 
But not saying a word. 
How strange this historical place, 
Within my mind has stirred. 

As I turn to go, 
Before the soon rising sun. 
I'm tear filled with sorrow, 
Seeing again where I'd begun. 
A haunted house of memory, 
I leave while looking back. 
Away from my childhood home, 
As the street lamps go black.