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Farewell, Maple Street

Running circles around our town

I am halfway around Maple Street

a quarter mile from Lulu's Coffee

before I will ever tell myself the truth

and especially you.


The sun remedies my mistakes

she soothes the waves

of my despair

then she vanishes

So I find myself walking

Maple Street.


The place of ends.

Outside this dusty window

Cold rain pours

In a diagonal fury

across the cement.


So, my tears decide to join

a flash flood consuming me.

At last, my heart is pried open

again I think a thought of you.


If comparison is a killer

consider me dead

A victim of it's poisonous seed

Vines of toxicity growing in my head.


Ma'am, we are closing in 10 minutes

the barista told me.

Watered down iced matcha

Cold chicken pesto sandwich

You are probably out partying

You told me You only live once

I laughed at that.

How do you know?


My head travels down every road

You and your one track mind.

Yes I am envious.

Yes, I almost hate you for it.


Silence and the screech of chairs

sliding across the old, wooden floors.

It is now hopeless to ignore.


The sky tells me by rumbling once more

I grab my coat, bright green and worn out

and I walk the rainy road away from Maple Street.


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