Nothing New

Andy Tran

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A longer poem

I set into the clouded shores
Where the waves overstep my laggy pace.
Each one different from the rest
Each one thrown into my hidden trace.
To the left is the open sea,
Where no man wishes to call a home.
But like the tides, I know my way is forward
I just have to find it.
Ahead of me is a shrouded figure
Eluding in and out of the morning fog
Thus interweaved within my sight.
I tread and follow, but cannot see their footprint.
Their presences keeps me wanting to move,
Etching their warmth into my memory.
Born again as part of the seaside.
Our travel stops abrupt to a stone wall
Where someone else has marked their place.
Is this what they were looking for?
It has to be.
And our moment makes it so.
I'm not bothered, but is it wrong?
To feel alone as you are away?
Are you also in this loneliness?
The sun is rising.
Its heat combines with the salt-filled air,
Letting go of everything forgotten.
I thought about what you said
And I’ve been thinking.

Burning the Days

step into the streetlights
where the darkness lays
and the forest leaves never fall

think of what this used to be
of what this day could hide
that the city can never change.