Lulu_D

Strangers 

are the closest companions. 

You take a shot 

and I let it go.  

You say I’m pretty 

and I let it go. 

Tomorrow is the day we don’t know. 

Yesterday was the day we can’t fix. 

But what is today? 

Today is the future of yesterday. 

You hold tight,

Grasping til death.

Yet it gets away.

You blame it.

Or you blame the world.

Or you blame yourself.

Losing someone you love,

hollows out a part of you.

One day, you have them,

and the next,

you’ll never see them again.

The realization stings,

worse than the sun's engulfing hug.

You push me out to sea

With every toll life takes. 

My wood is deteriorating 

With thousands of years. 

I've held village girls

And I've held mothers.