She opted to go somewhere
For reasons she didn't quite know
Perhaps, to see what changed

Much has changed
Since she's last come

Not many stores remained
And what remained
Had discounts

She traversed its halls
Her footsteps almost echoing

Her favorite store had long left
And the theatre long shuttered
The food court was down

To two eateries
She may was well be in a ghost town

This place wasn't long
No, it was quietly, slowly fading away
Little by little

Another in a pattern

Places of her youth
Disappearing, fading into memory
Like her long passed halcyon days

Times arrow never stops