We hiked in the easy lake forest
To connect away and to hide from the heat
My eyes caught a small dark shadow
Cross the foliage before my feet
Oh! A toad I shrieked as I bent down
Seven or eight again to catch it
Like I always do
My excitement met with silence
Looking up you were gone. Gone!
On the pavement you walk so slow
In the woods I can’t keep up
With your oddly fast strides
I remember all the times I asked you to stay
Maybe I should’ve asked you to come
For now it’s a shadow of guilty sadness
When I lament the peaceful relief
Of times when you were not near me
What kind of person feels like this
Like a hollow coconut shell
All the meat pulled out
In the sand in the sun with the water so close
Unreachable like the day that maybe I died
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