fifty seven

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You walk in harmony
even though you stumble in every
Do Re Mi
Your words are melancholy
even though you are still
struggling with A B C

  The sound of
  your guitar strums
  matches the
  rain on August
  so    you    kept
  practicing until
  your fingers bleed

Tick tock. Tick tock.

  Tomorrow    is     August
  and I've bought band-aids
  Just in  case  my fingers
  would bleed—i'd put them
  in                 a          second

  And, just in case my heart
  would crack in any minute
  because now you're gone
  and
  the thought of you playing
  your guitar this August
  with somebody else
  is killing me— and it
  won't stop echoing.

Farewell, my love
I hope this winter
she'll sing you a song
or write you a poem
better than I did
I hope she reminds you
of those cold nights
we've spent together
back on last August—
when we were still
together

  — Luar Bumi,
     






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