"Don't Look Back" (poem)

Written in response to the 100th prompt from We Write Poems!  The prompt was: Poet's Choice!  I've chosen: "Don't look back."

~ Don’t Look Back ~

Back in my day

It used to be wild

The opposite bank of the river

Unruly growth all the way down to the water

At dusk

Sounds would travel across

And we’d listen with wonder and awe

To the primal music of the high pitched screams

Of an unfortunate grass eater caught unawares

Centuries passed

But I still wander

Staring back at the other side

Eyes – old, but sharp – tracing the granite graveyard

Ears

Listening closely

For the stifled murmur of the past echoes

I lost something there, it’s lying there buried

Underneath the glass giants camouflaged as the sky

The young

Tell me to let go

They say if you squint a little

You can glimpse a rainbow in the rainfall of steel

Let go

They might be right

Maybe I got it all backwards

What do I know? Who am I anyway?

I’m just a dinosaur looking for his backbone.

Live for the Love of it,

The Happy Amateur

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