Exit Sign to Yesterday

T.Rex McGoogle on Oct 30, 2009

Tags: baby boom, back bedroom, God's answer, The exit sign, time changes all

I see an exit sign upon the freeway everyday. I turned there when it took me home so many times. The exit sign is still there but it doesn’t take me to the same old place though it lures me and I’m silly enough to turn there occasionally as though I could find yesterday. Only the house remains. The mailbox has a different name.

EXIT SIGN TO YESTERDAY

That freeway exit sign

Still leads to yesterday

Follow that old black top

The house is down that way

The place is full of stories

And there’s a back bedroom

In love’s finest moments

We helped the baby boom

Why did time have to change us

And Fate so interfere

Though the exit sign still stands

You can’t get there from here

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Vikram Chhabra on Oct 30, 2009
This has a beautiful musical touch!! A reminder of the happiness of long gone days and how we always seem to reach out to them!!
cutedrishti8 on Oct 30, 2009
A great one to read
Sourav on Oct 30, 2009
Nice to read
jessicuslevi on Oct 30, 2009
love this! great work.
diamondpoet on Oct 30, 2009
That was excellent work and this was well written. Thanks.
cafftee on Oct 30, 2009
It does almost read like the lyrics to a song. ‘But you can’t get there from here’ – love it!
Tanya Wallace on Oct 30, 2009
Loved it! This was a very heartfelt,creative and nostalgic piece!Truly a heartwarming piece! Brillaint work my friend!
J J Neuman on Oct 30, 2009
Kind of sad and clever.
maranatha on Oct 30, 2009
Very touching, and a little sad. Sometimes those nostalgic moments can bend you a little, can\\\\\\\’t they?
Goodselfme on Nov 1, 2009
I feel your words deep in my bones. The glow of wishfulness is snuffed out in the end of your well written piece. TX for the total enjoyment.
CA Johnson on Nov 1, 2009
I really enjoyed it. It was really creative. It can make you feel better when you think about good memories.
Poetic Enigma on Nov 2, 2009
This is a great write, very well composed (:
Phill Senters on Nov 2, 2009
No matter how you try, you can’t get there from here.
ashan1614 on Nov 3, 2009
It’s sad when you come to realize you can’t go back, isn’t it? I think we all have had that feeling – you’ve expressed it so well here.
Teves on Nov 3, 2009
Great write…
Colleen Ranney on Nov 4, 2009
We live so many lifetimes all packed into one life. This is familiar to me. Great writing.
Kitty Starwizard on Nov 7, 2009
Great, great great Kitty
Katie Marie on Nov 10, 2009
The past is the past, no routes will take you back. Excellent.
Rookie Expert on Nov 11, 2009
Beautiful. An award winner for sure. I love the way you write – simple, obvious, true yet poetic.
clay hurtubise on Dec 10, 2009
Liked that one very much.
If you visit Maine, the saying for how to get to one town from another is:You can’t get there from here
Thanks,
Clay
Colleen Ranney on Apr 8, 2010
There are truly sorrows that live inside footprints. This conveys that compassion of your heart. I like it very much
Colleen Ranney on Apr 8, 2010
There are truly sorrows that live inside footprints. This conveys that compassion of your heart. I like it very much

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