Like Your Shadow

We spent summers in our last two high school
Years beside the lake, composing notes for
Suicides. Our own? Who knows? It went
Unsaid. Your body browned beside mine
As we swam and as we lay upon the sand
Together. You, I guess, decided I was harmless,
Diffident or gay. You always had a boyfriend.
I was on my own, examining your backside
As you climbed into the car with him,
And then you married. Now, you're here.
The one is gone, but there's another. We can
Laugh. Those words we wrote have disappeared
Into the sand, but, soon enough, you'll run
To him, and I, who'll never be so close as I
Was on that burning beach, will sit alone
At home tonight with pen and paper, listing
Little details which could turn into a note.



Poetry by Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2012-06-27 at 16:44

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