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Childhood Gate

Upon Childhood Memories

Take me not unto the place of childhood memories
For to their distant sweetness I am a willing slave;
Let them remain as only once they came to me
For visiting again may lay them in a grave.

There are two other versions of this poem expressing different outcomes:

‘Take me now unto the place of childhood memories,
For to their distant sweetness I am a willing slave;
Some do remain, as once they charmed in infancy,
And visiting, not lay them in a grave!’

You may compare this with the version I wrote down having visited a different childhood place where I came away in a state of loss!

‘You took me to a place of childhood memories,
For to the distant sweetness I was a willing slave:
But now the place has left a void of vacancy:
A vestige of a memory now lying in a grave.’

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