A Year Ago Today

A year ago today, content alone
Standing against corridor walls
Headphones and pocket hands
He taps his thighs to beats of drums
And mimes to words unknown
Waiting for alarm bells to mark the next hour
And in summer, he laughs
Spends days with closest of brothers
He will not taunt or beat
Or curse, insult, abuse
Guitar in hand, with heart and soul
Into music,words and love
Back with his sworn protection
When he swore to love and never lie
Back when the words were meant as truth
A year ago today.

Today, intoxicated
Nostalgic corridors, screaming out
Black lungs and yellow teeth
Old friends, beaten black and blue
As the shouts of endless profanities
Echo through streets of destroyed memories
Waiting for sirens to mark the next sprint
And in summer, theres laughing
Mocking all unfortunate
With still the closest of brothers
Frivolous, uncaring directly to the core
Bottle or can always in hand
Endless cigarette butts stomped into the floor

Where would he go? Where could he go?
A caring, loving, quiet young gentleman
And the young girls heart, given so freely
A year ago today.