As I Soon Leave

we can run fast  
run forever 
until we lose ourselves 
our spirit 
but it doesn't matter 

as we sit in the grass 
and breathe in 
as the air grows sweet 
and the sod is covered in green 

and as we walk through these halls 
with these people 
that we will soon 
come to not know

we will be filled with 
everything we never wanted 
all the hope and joy 
will be left here 
with those who we once held close 

and as I leave through the same door
that gave me so much strength 
i leave a different person 

not that I've grown 
but I have changed

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meandpaul

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    [This is a reposted edited version of a previous poem of mine.]

     

    when all we have is spent–

    what will we have left?



    people once before us–

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    down the street

    i walked down the street
    the streets i once used to know 
    filled with regrets and heavy with burdens 
    of what once happened here

    i walked down the street 
    a block or so down 

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    By meandpaul

    Dear god, am I real?

    I believe in god even though I may know he doesn’t exist

    I know the mountains were not formed by him

    Instead it is the science in the world

    The reason we are here in this moment


     

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