Madelyn Wong- "return"

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return 

to my past is not easy 

it comes with a bravery i’m not quite sure i have obtained it is a journey i have chosen to make alone 

yet i feel your presence beside me 

the door creaks in forewarning as I cross the threshold and into this place we once called home 

every step I take is cloaked with a sense of familiarity yet so much has changed 

i wonder, now 

if my souvenirs of our life have been made into lies since the day you chose to take the smoother road 

the hallways are empty now, their paint pale and peeling handprints on the walls from the nights we spent laughing, screaming, hoping, dreaming 

but now those moments lay forgotten 

a happy orange memory turned bitter and blue a lovestruck serenade rewritten as a forlorn elegy 

you and I orbit one another in endless cycles and circles never meant to reach 

your path was paved for you, mine i had to carve by hand for two parallel lines, 

convergence is a fairy tale 

until one day 

to home we both 

return

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