How have you been?
I mean,
It’s been so long
since I left you here.
Taking into account
all these years,
you haven’t changed a bit.
I see you’re right where I left you.
clawing the ground,
tilling the soil.
I went away to forget you;
well,
not you specifically,
but this place and everyone like you.
I thought one day
I’d return and
lord my success over you.
Show you how your
little ways were
insignificant and laughable.
But now I see
that I have made
a predicable mistake,
because
you’re not who I though you were.
This place stayed the same,
but someone went
and took their blinders off you.
I see you,
unrestrained.
Try as I might
to wrestle with you,
you’re always a step ahead.
How did you do it?
I cannot comprehend.
I was supposed
to come back and gloat
and now I’m
lost instead.
Maybe I did
all of this
the wrong way.
Maybe I
viewed the world
with a jaundiced eye.
You’ve changed,
beyond what I could imagine,
in this place,
so far away
from anything that truly matters.
Has the whole world gone insane?
Or, is it
just
me?
HG – 2019
