To Say Goodbye

If I had to say goodbye 
I wouldn't know what to say 

Would I embrace you 
Like we used to 
Or is the tension in the air pulling us away from that 

If I say goodbye would it leave behind everything 
As worlds slip from my lips 
Trying to hold on 
But they aren't quite strong enough yet 

And as I look at you 
We don't make eye contact 
As we both look past 
And before either of us says another word 
I turn around and walk the other way 

And after time has passed 
Maybe some things weren't better unsaid 

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    By meandpaul

    What is left

    [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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  • Poetry

    By meandpaul

    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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  • Poetry

    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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