everywhere now and right here
then is just an iteration of now and now an iteration
of the then-now
can’t remember the last time i remembered
to laugh and
to cry
and to laugh—haha
and to look back at the past with a curious eye
everywhere is starting to look like nowhere
with the tedious passage of my own past
like a fatigued traveller traversing a distant space and time
an echo of a familiar doorbell
ringing faintly in my mind just
then
and also,
now
i think i should be happy here
i think
i should be alright now
the past is over
the wrong is right
and the right looks right
enough.
I close my eyes
and smile again
for the first
and the last time