You have returned
To the city of your past
Desperate for the comfort of simply returning
But this city is different
From the one you remember
Layers of the past and present morph and overlay
Beauty and pain interweave
In a searing cocktail of memory
Laughter skips by in a tantalising whisper
Exquisite ghosts dance every street
Defying the wounded living that lay in every corner
Everything you buried ripples to the surface
As you drown in a sea of familiar faces
Utterly broken by the stark, humid fact
That the only face you want to see
Is gone and lost forever
Blindfolds Hiding Diamonds 