MY HOME BASE IS GONE

My home-base is gone
No place to house my past
With no look back I've been forgotten
Brief memories rarely last 

Moved, lost, dead, displaced, indifferent 
All those I admired 
Thinking I'd come back to thank them
But that chance expired 

My photo hangs on nobody's wall
Other than work I get no calls
The Christmas cards stopped coming long ago
Unremembered me
I live among cool strangers
Pariah from my years of wandering
No roots, no ties
Forgotten in the place I was raised

My home-base is gone
No place to house my past
With no look back I've been forgotten
Brief memories rarely last 

Houses peopled with intruders
Graveyard filled with friends 
Never looking back once I left
Brought a sorry end

Nothing I own is out of my home
All I create remains unknown
I'll be erased when I'm inanimate
A faded memory 
I didn't mean to but I isolated myself
Forgetting who, what, and where
To me held pure importance

I should have known that things would change
But so out of touch I wasn't prepared


February 2022, Ash Hall