Abandoned

Returning home after all these years
I expected more than endless tears
A street that once was home
Now just shells and vacant roads
You’d think that war took this place
In reality it was left to fade
Its even worse than when I left before
My feeling are an open sore
I came back and there is only shame
Shopping malls with locked barricades
That now sit without a hope
The people left are just as broke
Trapped in a cage of can’t move on
This town was them and its long gone
I pass the homeless and deceived
Nothing left but empty dreams