I did something
you never do, I
told him to play
the song only
you have played
for me, but it
doesn't matter
because your
voice always
replaces Jeff
Magnum.
even when
i try not to
hear it.

How erratic my mind is, thinking about all the lives I've lived, all the people I've been, and all the transitions between the now and the then that we tend to devote very little attention to. How is it that we become these different people, and we don’t even realize it has happened until we look back through time? How is it that we are so preconditioned to not notice ourselves that we don’t see how much we change over the days, the months, the years? Oh, just how odd it is to be so lost outwardly, that traveling inward proves to be a complete mystery; hidden in plain sight, right behind our very own eyelids.

I am so tired of being left
I've sat here
In this tiny town
My whole life
Watching people leave
They don't come back
They make promises they never keep
And I'm still here with all the memories that loom in all of our favorite places
I'm stuck here
With no way out
While time dangles the keys in front of my face
Taunting me with fresh images
Playing over and over in my head
I am so tired of being forgotten
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*I am just so tired of missing people who don't deserve to be missed.