So badly I've wanted to love the town I grew up in,
Feel homesick suddenly when I think about how the leaves have changed, falling in my parents front yard.
But now I can only think of the scars on my brain it's left.
Happy memories replaced by news headlines.
Teen dies in a car crash on the way to school.
Local man murders his wife, dumping her across state lines.
Another overdose in the school bathroom during an assembly.
EPA declares drinking water for many unsafe.
School board paid off to pick a scapegoat for the last bomb threat. They chose one of my closest friends.
Man with firearms and drug paraphernalia arrested outside classroom window.
Family murder suicide.
A few of many stories I wish I could unlike and unread.
