Rural Route 2

 Rural Route 2

Rural route 2

Took you to a place

That no longer exists 

No one lived there but me

And my family

Now it’s hot property

And we left the past behind.  

My father lived there

In ashes 

In a tackle box

My mother appeared

Just a girl

And left a woman

Roads change routes remain

That patchy road

Will always lead me home. 

Rural route 2

Took you to a place

That no longer exists 

No one lived there but me

And my family

Now it’s hot property

And we left the past behind.  

My bother moved there

6 years old 

And he lingered on

My home since my birth 

Solitude

Was all I could know 

Woods were my playground 

In that silence 

I began to dream

Rural route 2

Took you to a place

That no longer exists 

No one lived there but me

And my family

Now it’s hot property

And we left the past behind.  

Burning woods become 

Burnt ember and oak 

Scorched inside the wildwood

It’s time to say goodbye. 

Rural route 2

Took you to a place

That no longer exists 

No one lived there but me

And my family

Now it’s hot property

And we left the past behind.