“Homecoming”
Written by Khalid Daniels on November 11, 2022
“HOMECOMING”
A trip down memory lane just ain’t the same…
It’s certainly not the same as a guilt trip and the feeling isn’t necessarily related to pain but I’m determined to see what’s actually changed because currently something feels out of place…
It’s similar to a Different World at a different time yet some place similar at the same time…
And it’s not even necessarily related to all the skyline changes – or all the cranes that got here by way of who knows how or who knows when or who knows what that came from who knows where – but I’m having a difficult time putting my finger on what’s actually to blame…
Given my Tennessee state of mind I guess I could blame the construction since we’re such a work in progress but I presently feel like I may have gained some perspective looking from the outside in all the way from FLA at this Tennessee state of mine, where often times in the past I’ve felt like an outsider ringing the doorbell time and time again…
Where once upon a time leaving Georgia, crossing the border into Chattanooga and ultimately arriving in Nashville felt right as rain…
Where I was born, where our son was born, the place we resided at five different addresses, and the place where Five Daughters remains but not necessarily their new location in the A because I would’t say I feel like an Outkast or I’ve outgrown this place or somehow outclassed all my folk but I’m definitely moving at a different pace…
I think it’s safe to say this place, that was once everything to me, just ain’t the same…
Without you.
