Streetlights

Peeking out from the window, illuminating a place I once called home

But that place I left far behind

If only could the wings that brought me there would fly me up again

To be a child peeking through the blinds

Just watching the time go by

Endless waking in the dark, seemingly alone

As shadows crept from the corners and devoured my eyes

Streets where feet clattered like a dream, just a blink then gone

A day back when mother’s door was kept close

A crack through that instead of a face I remember

Streetlights

The one thing that kept me awake through the ever changing windows

A soft light that seemed to have disappeared

A story that faded on those streets where water fell so heavily

A heart full of ink that smeared down those trails

Car rides over plains, mountains and hills

A way I cannot return, and past then will I fly

To only think past on the days,

I wish I would’ve tried

But I just remember streetlights