I Thought I Knew Poem by soren Barrett

In a familiar land I knew so well transformations that my memories repel
What was right now what's left, certainty robbed by change's theft
Nothing I recognize, what was well known masked with progress' disguise
A place I used to call home has become a freeway by a factory dome
The schoolyard where I used to play a dealership with cars on display
What was once our private trail now pawn shops with love for sale
The tree under which I proposed now a landfill daily bulldozed