Nostalgia

it burns,

the yearning for yesterday,

the songs and sights

of a past that cannot be connected

or revisited

for the colour photograph in your mind

has turned sepia, discoloured,

browned and parched by the sun,

they can only be seen as

fragments,

disjointed,

the wreckage,

the rubble you left behind.

Nostalgia

I remember you

fondly.

Ian D. Hall 2016