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Streetlights of the Last Decade
As we be began our
time together, as children
with memories of foam,
soaking in all our happiness,
radiating all our emotions,
I cherished those times.
I really did.
Older, we have become
but Saturdays are still the same,
when your Friday night
will always be with that
one childhood best friend.
Throughout the years, these streets
have lit up for us, year after year, class
after class. Your smiles have lit me up.
Your words have cheered me up.
If I had not done something in return,
I would feel as though the world closed
my mouth shut. I would feel as though
the winds blew my vocals akin, where
I wish no better for me when my time
has come—in just one more year.
But, haven’t you noticed that our
spring still shines as gallantly as does
our summer. Once, the winter darkness
fades, there lies a spearmint of annual
rejuvenation.
It’s all the same every year. You ask them
to come back for the last time, and they promise
that they’ll see you when the see you, and
otherwise this last conversation is what’s ultimately
due. It’s all the same every year.
Congratulations to the Class of 2023.
I wish you all the greatest times of your lives
from this day forward.
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