YESTERDAY

Where has yesterday gone?
I ask as I drive all around
Unfamiliar faces, all in a hurry
This once was my old home town.

A drive past the movie theatre
Where so many week-ends were spent
A walk by the old grocery store
Where we spent our very last cent.

Looking for cranberries down by the beach
Or for clams that are now illegial
Memories of our Sunday School picnics
Still make me smile or giggle.

Waiting for the McKenzie Bus Lines
One could wait now forever
Or watching the ol' train roll on by
Knowing it won't happen again...ever!

Dancing at midnight at a street dance
Or hitch-hiking a ride back home
Parking out at the old tree yard
Always with friends; never alone.

No little road-side restaurant
To walk with pals for a hot-dog
No little "Hat Shoppe" to search for
A hat to wear in the thick fog.

Where has yesterday gone?
Where are the cars from the States?
No bus, no train, no ferry
They call it progress & blame it on fate.