Today I spent awhile
In a world I’d left behind
I knew what I was doing
But I didn’t change my mind
I could have turned around
In fact I did one time
But in the end I caved
And returned to do the crime
I entered my old haunt
It hadn’t changed a bit
No sunlight reached inside
It scared me I admit
The old familiar ways
I fell back in the pattern
I chose my first machine
The wheels began to chatter
The lights the sounds the feel
It was just as I’d left it
But something wasn’t right
Something was wrong…decrepit
No pleasure came to me
I saw it was just a machine
There was no magic to it
In fact it felt unclean
I was winning here and there
But it didn’t make me smile
I looked around and saw
Only people in exile
Exiled from their lives
Escaping in a lie
What was I trying to do?
I stopped, I breathed, I sighed
This world I used to crave
Was strange, unknown, unkind
I didn’t want to stay
I left and cleared my mind
For 15 minutes that day
I wandered back in time
But the world I used to know
Is now forever left behind