Time

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When you sit alone, you have time to think.

The music plays and you stare into the wall.

Time disappears and the world goes blank…

How did everything change? The summer feels like a million years ago with the cold of winter wrapped around you. Wasn’t it six months ago no one could step between all of us? Time had no meaning then. Does it still? We were just a group of kids and summer was our domain. Late nights, camp fires…music and laughter filling the air.

Cell phone call! “Meet us at the hot spot!” Rolling onto the scene to the faces that I called my family. Holla, holla…load up! Take it to the house! Give a wave to the drive-bys and now we’re out. Headed out to next peeps house to chill for the night. Wait, no…folks are home! Guess it’s the fields again…grab the tents!

Lawn chairs and the smell of burning wood…roast a marshmallow and tell a story. It’s getting late…time to dance. Yeah, we’re white, but no one’s watching! So on and so on it went, until the summer became fall.

What is it with fall? Everything dies, so they say, but I didn’t know they meant it like this. Summer over, time to change paths…pack your bags and say good-bye. But don’t worry…I’ll be back soon.

Weeks pass…my crew still there? The transmission is getting hazy. I’ve not seen you in forever. “How ya been? How ya doin’?” Time passes so fast. What’s this…don’t you remember me? Wasn’t it a month ago we were blood? How could ya’ll forget? You’ve got a new friend…you’ve got a new job…and you’ve got a new home? Now I’m left standing here with the chill of winter sinking in…

Memories cry out to me…miss the times that are gone. Touch the rocks that remember with me…that cry with me. Look out at the evening sky…sun fading and then gone. Close this chapter…afraid to open a new one…come back to me…but no hope is around. Kids? I guess this is growing up…

When you sit alone, you have time to think.

The music plays and you stare into the wall.

Time disappears and the world goes blank…