places i will never see

I was watching television tonight and they were showing pictures of New Orleans; i had a sudden flashback to the late 1980s when i so desperately wanted to move there. I planned on it. I told everyone i was going to do it. (I don't remember what i was planning to do once i got there~just that i was going)

then along came a boyfriend, and along came life, and well, you know...

and then came another flashback

to the early 1980s (and before)

when one of the places i wanted to go (and to see) more than anywhere else was the U.S.S.R. and Moscow and Leningrad

and isn't it funny, isn't it strange, isn't it sad

(isn't it odd how quickly things go from funny to sad)

that though the earth remains

the things that stand upon it

don't seem to.

Like dust in the wind

though i'm sure Russia's still beautiful

and New Orleans will never fall

or so they say

nothing will ever be the same

just like nothing ever changes...