Equinox

The sun slipped through

A gray cloud

And illuminated the scene

The town hummed

In sudden thrall

As if stirred from winter’s dream

The sidewalk seized

By children spilling

Recklessly into the street

You stood beside

The blue mailbox

Where we’d agreed to meet

Equinox, equinox

Has returned to life

Everything you forgot

Equinox, equinox

All your old hopes

You stored away in a box

Equinox, equinox

Provides the strength to lift

Those ideals you long ago dropped

The April sky

Seems pastel painted

Onto the lenses before your eyes

We talked about the government, the Internet

And you wondered when I’d ever

Realize

You said, ‘the only hope is the

Present moment, cyclical and

Interpersonal.’

We never related

About interfacing

And my depression was

Non-negotiable

Chorus

On the aching boulevard

It made too much sense

To tell each other

Goodbye

Not sure what you wanted by meeting

We didn’t click, I never thought

You needed to apologize

But before we parted

You offered an embrace

And your arms were still

So thick and strong

That lingering sense

Of an unfinished sentence

Dissolved upon your whisper,

“Cheer up Julia, the weather’s getting warm.”

Chorus.