Something To Be Said

Garden

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it's 3 am

and I'm awake

there's a leaf flying across the yard

and it reminds me of you

isn't that sad?

how much you affected my mind

that now

I don't know how to think

about anything

except the fact that you're

gone

and you're not coming back and that's the worst part

you're not ever coming back

not because you can't

but because you don't want to

that leaf will never be back either

it will eventually fall somewhere when the wind settles down

but not here

it will fall to the ground and stay there

it will become part of the earth

and without knowing, I will walk on top of it

as I walk to the store

to pick up a baby oak tree

to plant my garden

and I will dig up that leaf

and plant a new tree

I will try to dig your traces out of my skin

and I will plant a new way of living

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