sitting with the skyline

Published on 7 February 2024 at 17:26

you ever sit so still 

that you can feel your heart beating, beating, 

beating in your chest

without even heaving a heavy breath. the gold 

lights that dance in the skyline

and the beams that barely make it past your sight 

as the cars travel along the buildings; 

still 

you hear the wind leaving, leaving, 

leaving voices that you once heard before, and 

you thought they were memories because 

you're sitting alone

with the built-up tension that dances like the cars, 

that are mirrored on the glass of the 

buildings that stand

so tall. those specks of red

from either the sun, or your head 

return to the moving vehicles when they 

stop

and give you ten reasons to worry, 

that you won't ever be the same as you are

today; so you sit, you breathe, and you leave

because the sun has set, and you must retreat.