The ground
had been growing
around me, fathering
a newfound time,
youth wrapped me
and I wore it on my sleeve

The girl who showed me
that flowers could dance in the rain,
she held my words with a single breath,

Her sunlit curls and her moonlit eyes,
she touched me and I felt like
a hermit who was on
the tracks,

Winter behind him,
spring ahead,

I lived on these tracks
she was too afraid to pull me forward
but i was too afraid to turn back.

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