Shadows Of The Past Poem by Barry Middleton

oh yes I will return some day
not even death can block my way

if you have never seen this place
and memories time could not erase

then you may fail to understand
the forest where it all began

born beneath the Eden trees
a child grew stronger with the breeze

a silver stream and apple trees
the moments that a boy might seize

but mostly peace within that place
that took me from the hectic pace

of school and chores and what would be
intentions of divinity

and all the storied panoply
that lay within my destiny

I will go back I promise you
to seek the path that I once knew

I'll rest in shadows of the past
where life and love and trust still last