Homecoming Poem by Morgan McKelvey

I wasn't ready for forever
When you etched us on the wall
Left the words I didn't say
In cobwebbed corners of your hall
So when you found me in the city
I resolved to share it all—
Though you remain as gone as ever
I appreciate the call.

Happiness lies with delusion;
I was aching to fall in
Reading promises in paragraphs
And tracing where you'd been
But the present rules the future
And the past can never win.
You remain as gone as ever
And I take it on the chin.

"Who the hell can see forever, "
Asks a man in iron red
The truth is, I saw it glisten
Through each interwoven thread
(I still feel you like a tether
And I will until I'm dead) .
You remain as gone as ever,
Singing burn that broken bed.

How does anyone not linger
In a midnight lover's dawn?
You were mine a time, a moment
Now our golden dream is gone
And the world awaits, but god I hate
To think of moving on
So I wait (too late) forever,
While the Fates observe anon.