Retro

Jennifer Paige©1997

Retro on the radio

Can’t change these thoughts

Can’t dance you out

Spin you out

Speed you out

     Anymore

Your permanence etched

In the glass of my thoughts

That now pend shattering

With the sigh of each breath form you

With each word wrapping me in its viney grasp

Choking me in softness

Gagging me with truth

     In the morning

Somehow I misplaced you

Through time and space

The wonder of the mind couldn’t preserve you

     Couldn’t keep you

     I couldn’t hold you

    As tightly

     As long

     As I tried

You vanished

Drifted away

Like the sound of your voice

The breath you whispered into my ear

     So hot and sweet

     And the warmth of your chest

     Against my cheek

All gone—

Like today will be tomorrow

And yesterday is today

I can only remember

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