Heart of Steel

The Endless Sentence (10/12/24-10/13/24)

"There's this pang inside me when I hear songs from so long ago"

It was only one sentence I had time to write

Only by some chance do I think of you now

I can't believe those words escape me

I was silent last afternoon

Being told I should write my story

Kiss a stranger

Stay young forever

And then I thought of you as the monologue ended

The song unfolded

And it all sounded so sad

Just like I was when I was around you

But in a way I miss what I hate

There was something about it

And sometimes I think about going back

It seems like yesterday

Here's to yesterday

Here's to tomorrow

The party's over

I made it to a new day

I can tell these stories

You're just a memory

It was a good run

I will admit it

It was a mistake

I'll never forget it

When you haunt my dreams

I wonder if you think of me

I hope you abandon me

Run away like I did

Learn to let me go

The party's over

I could go on forever

I made it to my dreams

And I am alive

I don't have to sleep to see it right in front of me

When I hear those songs from so long ago

There's this pang

It's pain

It's beautiful

It's the fragmented sentences that grace through my mind

They dance in my heart as it flutters away

It's panic

It's tragedy

It's everything I never wanted

But it happened that way

I made it to my dreams

Do not haunt me anymore

I could go on forever

Maybe one day I will

I'll never forget it

The way the sunset hugged me tightly on the summer nights where you hated me most

The way the stars called my name when I had a wine glass in hand

The way the rain sheltered me when no one else would

All so beautiful

All must end

I could go on forever

But tonight

I just can't.