Return to the past

I cannot return to the past,

I no longer belong there,

My laughter is just a shadow of the building,

My sorrow spilled in past tense,

And, shakily, I reach out for that clock,

Uselessly, I try to return that time,

Accompanied by the hollow clock chime,

The laughter of merciless time,

I cannot return to the past,

Nothing awaits there anymore,

All of the buildings ruined, blown up,

To the soldier just returning from the war,

Uselessly, I repair, brick by brick,

I weep in the past tense despair,

Nothing, it is useless,

To come back to the time,

That no longer wants you there