I pushed through letters and tripped over sentences
Just to make it to
familiarity
Life once suited in comfort now stripped and teased
with new faces and dreams
Promises used to shower my future
until
the stone my plan was set in
began to crack
I watched memories dress up and fly away in
disguise
old paths planned there escapes as they fled
the scene that I was hostage to
Tears conjoined as they ran down my cheeks
in a race to freedom
Times that were stored in my mind began to
whisper “goodbye”
I followed the path I was sent to take
but
my heart spun at the end of the road
and split in two like an intersection of life
Your smile hypnotized my direction
and your voice spoke magnetic tones as it
slowly unfolded my new plan.
I dropped what was left of me in your palm
and
I sank into your footsteps making new prints
just my size
Risk took me by the hand led me to the end of the
“One Way” road you built for me.







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