This one is for you.
Leave the past
in the past,
they said,
but I could not forget.
Even when I tried,
drank until I cried
and then sobered up again.
Bright lights
burn my eyes.
In the morning light,
I realize that time
has cauterized
old wounds,
but it feels too soon.
Maybe I
got used
to being blind.
Hamstrung
by the pain
that I saw in your eyes.
I always wondered
if it was the same
you saw
in mine?
Baby,
yesterdays are nothing,
but dust,
or ash,
or smoke.
We used to joke,
but now,
the laughter
ain’t as loud.
I climbed a high tree
and looked around
and you were nowhere
to be found.
I’m gonna move on, now.
Glad I had a chance
to find you out.
Maybe tomorrow
I’ll hit the road,
but today
I’m too hungover
to look forward.
Stuck in the same old place.
Same old bar,
no escape.
No more lies
I can say;
that you’d believe
anyway.
Good-bye
is easy to say
from long ago
and far away.
HG – 2021
