Setup: This was a poem I wrote three years ago after my first semester of college (I go to school out west and grew up in MN) it was my last night before I returned to school for the next semester and I was at a movie with my best friends from high school who I hadn't seen since the summer after I graduated high school. Needless to say I was a little depressed that I would have to leave them again and this is what came to me on the drive home from the theater. This is the second draft, last written and edited three years ago. I'm posting this in here because not too much poetry surfaces in this corner of ForgeHub and I recently unearthed the notebook this was in whilst cleaning before this semester started. So without further delay I give you... Awkward Goodbyes by: Shepard Pink sky and neon lights old friends and a starry night an awkward goodbye alone and again at the crossroads of now and then. Drive into the night feeling so remorse of the days long filled with perfect things replaced with uncertain course to return to the past is my perfect dream to innocence within warm nights bronze skin and cinnamon tans pink skies and neon lights late movies with no plans. And here I stand at the crossroads of now and then a grasp of the past lives again tonight savor its flavor: the sights the lights the smells the nights why return when I'm home again? in my element, the one of then I thrive here, breathe here sleep here, drive here. Here; alone in the past where I was alive here. The past returns in scattered bits alive forever in memories that keep me walking an unknown path to God knows where without the friends that should be there. We each have our separate roads that separate farther still further more every day more and more until... Pink skies and neon lights old friends and starry nights at the crossroads with teary eyes ending alone after awkward goodbyes.
Man, that strikes a chord with me. I'm getting a whole lot of imagery, some from my past and some straight from the words. It's got a great flow to it, too. Very nice work here, keep it up mate.
Thank you. It's very satisfying to know that your work doesn't just 'sound pretty' ( though that always helps) but it also speaks to your audience. Whether in the same way it does to you (the author) or not.