Daily Prompt #6

Hello fellow Prosers! First so sorry I've missed three days for these prompts, but like I said in the first one, weekends are a bit spotty for me as they tend to be busy and it unfortunately followed me into Monday. Any who, here's back to your regularly scheduled writing prompts! :)

Prompt:Write about something you can see from the window of your home.

It's simply a lamppost

One that I have stared at for years

Watching rain and snow pass under its light

I remember getting excited

When I saw it flicker on at night

When I was younger it was my timer

Telling me when I needed to be home

It stood tall just beyond my fence

Sitting on a pedestal of greying stone

It gives me warm memories

Of when I was younger

When life was simpler

And I hadn't made so many blunders

It was a ray of hope

In the dying twilight

Where I sat with pen and paper

And first dared to write

It was a place to run to and hide

When the bullies made me afraid

And a place to make memories

When I had friends who finally stayed

It has been there for the good

The bad

It has been there when I am happy

And when I am sad

But it's simply just

A lamppost