{"sf1_id":2134229,"sf2_id":"dmB7Ld2n","title":"Returning to An Unremembered Original Home","author":"Apolarbear17","words":467,"posted_at":"2024-05-10T15:45:38.000Z","tags":["Faint Familiarity","Family","Food","Memories","Original Neighborhood","Poetry","Reconnecting","Revisit","comparisons","park"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2134229-returning-to-an-unremembered-original-home","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmB7Ld2n","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/95/fb/95fb9569-0a72-40f3-adfc-c49f2be7ba0d","description":"This is another poem that took more time than expected but less time than the last one partially on account of being a bit shorter. This is a poem about revisiting a hometown you don’t really remember but did live in at one point. Originally posted this back in August 2022.","content":"Returning To An Unremembered Original Home\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n\nYour original neighborhood\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt’s been a\u0026nbsp; long while but you’re feeling good\u0026nbsp;\n\nVisiting family in a place that you couldn’t remember but feel like you should\u0026nbsp;\n\nUltimately though you can’t because you left so long ago and at such a young age\n\nYet you continue to look for landmarks and places to gauge\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs if you could actually remember what it was like being here back then\u0026nbsp;\n\nAt a time when you couldn’t even talk so it doesn’t really feel like you’re back again\n\nInstead it feels like you’re experiencing a place with a faint familiarity for the first time\n\nWhen you actually meet up with your family that’s here you embrace\u0026nbsp;\n\nCatching up with each other and trying not to burn too much daylight as you go\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou drive around for a bit trying to figure out where you’re going to go next\n\nA decision is made to go to a nice restaurant where you can have some food and reconnect\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt’s new and a pretty good place with food that you all share\u0026nbsp;\n\nAfter eating you walk around some more and ask about the neighborhood and how it compares\n\nTo the past and in the brief time when you lived here before\n\nIt all gives you an appreciation for this place to finally come here and pass by the stores\n\nAlong with the park and the streets, naturally familiar though not to you, other places as well\n\nYou all decide to go for ice cream with its location from the park being parallel\u0026nbsp;\n\nSo you all get your chosen flavors and then take a couple of pictures too\u0026nbsp;\n\nEnjoying the delicious, cold treat from a pretty good place for it while continuing to pass through\u0026nbsp;\n\nBoth more streets and the park savoring this family time, for how much of it is left\u0026nbsp;\n\nSome people you haven’t met before but that some of your family knows come over as you rest\u0026nbsp;\n\nWell more just sit and relax as you finish off your ice cream before it melts and also say hi\u0026nbsp;\n\nAfter that and more chatting you burn through a few more minutes maybe more\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd before you know it becomes time for bittersweet farewells\u0026nbsp;\n\nThere’s only so long you can stay because it won’t be a short trip back home\n\nHowever this has trip was great for what it has quelled\n\nThe desire to see family and a place you’ve only ever heard about and never really known\n\nYou’re happy that you actually have memories there now, memories of your own\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou’ll probably be back someday, you know this place will wait and be there as before\n\nYou’re happy to have returned after all these years and hope to return at least a few times more"}