3.26.2025

Poetry | Vestige

Why does loneliness infect the many? Of children sitting atop metallic slides,
Holes in their shoes filled with wood chips and pebbles alike,
A bench that is frequented but never used, 
Why stop and breathe the air when it whips past when running?
Effervescent qualities of these little life, I used to hold but lost with time,
Punctuated, pulsing, parting paths.

For some oblivious, for some cautious,
Knee scrapes and splinters akin, blood has a different meaning guarded by youth,
Trial scorned the innocent and bruised lineages,
All lonesome, she said, can't be helped these days.

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