DILLY PATCH

walked along this street tonight
how time had made things change
dilly patch haunting
like phantom pains
hiding in the dark
and through each bark

each groove scratched deep
just as before
remnants lurking in the past
met this here I thought
if time could tell its tale
how full the story would be...
it would include me too
of how they saw me there
as a child now aged old
the earth burrying each strand
of its roots
far older and wiser than I
weathered and tested by time...