Peninsula Ohio

Peninsula Ohio

I am a big city boy

Raised with skyscrapers

Crowds of people

And noise beyond description

My favorite memories are not of the city

Rather a small town

Home to less than a thousand people

But a haven to a teenage boy

It had one police car

One bar and a general store

With a church on the corner

The people were friendly to a fault

Uncorrupted by the stresses of the city

I will always remember the milkshakes

The richest chocolate ever tasted

And the merging of the Cuyahoga River

With the antique Ohio Canal

Currents and waves made a visual music

With changing melodic tones

I am grown now

With sixty summers behind me

Still, that small town sticks with me

I know it will have changed

But, I pray that someday I will go back

And those milkshakes will still be there