Ordinary (Shadow and Shade)

Lackawanna, NY

The memories are there

Hazy

Foggy

Misty

All flexible shapes and sizes that shift and morph with me

Once-imposing structures

Old school buildings that seemed massive

Now small and

Ordinary

Crossroads that used to feel so distant and dangerous

Now just a short walk away

How

Ordinary

The ice cream shop

Once red and near-magical

Now drab blue and gray

Street flanked in orange cones and dusty construction

Ordinary

Places reskinned and renamed

People aged or decayed

Everything changes

And fades away into shadow and shade

Our shared fate

Under skies of brilliant blue and gray