Like There’s No Tomorrow

A Poem

Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash

we walked around in circles
downtown
and we lost each other
somewhere
along the way

i thought we’d love free
and die hard,
just like any old day
till we were
just patient echoes

but it’s another year
and i’m missing you
and i wonder
if there will ever be
a moment just like ours

and i loved you
more than i should have
and i called out
as if you being there
would change my life

but you wouldn’t
have made any difference —
just like fortune
would never smile on me,
no matter how i cried

i take to these old urban streets
and wind through them
as if all the scenes
would save me
from boredom