Poems - 2016

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Circles

I think I’ve been walking in circles

of loving you – trying to forget you

– and believing I’ve forgotten you.

I thought I had gotten out of the cycle,

Walking in a straight line away from you,

When I think of you and I feel nothing.

But then your face appears in the crowd,

And like the wind you swept me through

It’s the same point all over again.

.

.

.

But I think you’ve been walking in circles too

A steady step in front of me

too fast I can’t catch up

Because just like what you are to me,

I am a past you couldn’t get rid of

A permanent hole in your heart you will never be able to fix

And we think we are trying to get away

But when we run we raise our hands trying to reach

A shadow, a camouflage of one love

Maybe I should have stepped outside the line,

Do us both a favor, and leave

Let this vicious ring be broken

Or maybe

I should have stood silently waiting for you to walk through

I should have turned back, took a different way toward you

So our reaching hands could hold each other

Let this circle end,

In that point where I will say,

“I should have never let you go”.

-NGA-