Poem: "Departure"

The healing process is

very much like navigating your

way through a city you're

unfamiliar with

no gps, no wifi, no phone

all the avenues are

why-haven't-you's

all the streets are

take-me-back's

and the taxis are

passing memoirs

you could imagine the routes I took

and all the places I wound up on

here's one

I tried to recall a memory

seeing if I could take myself back

to the way things could've been

if I had just done it differently

but, y'know, things change

the streetlights became my hope

windows have become my eyes

the ambiance is my voice

and the buildings are how high my

soul gets

when i realize

I finally found myself

on the outskirts

of town

-

one of the first few poems I wrote after taking a 7 year hiatus; I used to write a lot of poetry when I was around 12-15 years old. Revisiting it felt nostalgic.

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