Some of these come from SUs...actually I think both of these are lol. So yeah.

 

24......2025..26

Twenty-twenty-six:

Did I ever have a life before this?

Was I truly I?

 

Twenty-twenty-five:

What was this amalgamation?

What happened in Spring? Summer?

I remember only Fall, Winter.

I remember only…what happened.

 

Split in two:

First and second “halves.”

With the second, and more prominent, leading to now.

 

Twenty-twenty-four?

What happened there?

Year of Past, what were you?

More recent than I think?

Less distant than ‘25 leads me to believe?

 

Again, The Now, ‘26:

I know myself, more than before

I feel myself, for once

I wonder on all those years.

So many.

For what.

And am I truly…the Me I think?

 

Then, the strange Past:

It’s hard to think of…of…him

As me.

Painful to write.

Thoughts odd.

Now, I think what am I?

Who?

 

The Girl

I rushed through the cold,

Checked my watch,

Had time,

Entered.

 

Awkward moment,

Scanning,

Taken.

Occupied.

No.

 

There.

 

I see her, I approach.

She doesn’t mind, I hope.

I sit down, set down, settle.

And…silence. Silence between us.

 

Oh how I would have liked to befriend, to speak.

 

- Lily