A place where I grew up, this town I’ve

Come back to,

Once a house that I lived in, many

Memories, I am home.

Ghosts of friends here from the past,

They laugh in the wind,

Live do they in the future as do I,

No longer boys, I am home.

Remember do I, times playing in

The snow, long ago, I am home,

Strange it is that a home,

A place stands lonely in time,

Longer than I.

Echoes the sound in my mind

Of a life sometime before now,

Years gone,

Home for Christmas, home in the

Snow, here now, but a life left behind.

Keith Garrett