Poem - It will be different this time

IT WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME

It's dark now, and time to go

A silent flit, I know the rules,

The 'only take what you can carry'

Curtains twitching in good riddance

Already I know we'll go again

But Mum says it will be different this time

Fly by night, land by night

Secret creatures of the dark 

That hides shame and flapping shoes

How we came to this bare place

And we'll leave the same

But Mum said it would be different last time

Always running from some past,

Go before the present's here,

Futures that all look the same

Bed amongst the bugs and rats

Then some man who's wanting more

But Mum says it will be different next time

Time and time and time again

It wasn't much but it was home

I had to choose what's left behind

"I'm ready now" the waited words

Pours the last drop into her cup

But Mum says it will be different this time