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Since I'd Last Seen You

by Shawn Smith

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It'd been about twenty years since, I'd last seen you.
I was living on the south side, near New Jersey Ave.
Your hair was dyed red, and I guess, that suited you,
but I can't remember your voice, or even if you had a choice.

It's easier to smile now, somehow, it all makes sense.
I could have been a criminal, but they never had the evidence,
and I want to thank you for that, but in your defense--
I should have never put you through, all those nights I tore myself in two.

But then I look back and it's not that way at all.
I was lying to myself when I thought you'd stay through the fall.
I was lost through the winter and just can't recall,
but I'm glad you got out when you could.
It doesn't matter, I never understood.

You moved out to Kansas City, but I heard you didn't like it out there,
and you moved back here for awhile, but I never know where,
and you went back to the east coast and I guess it's fair
to say you're gone for good this time,
and when you were with me you were never mine.

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Another night I saw you in December under black lights,
you were still young and your hair was dyed white,
I could have stayed with you and just lost my life,
but that was never meant to be, and it was never up to me.

They say you're finally safe now, out in Chula Vista,
you got a place out there with your older sister,
when people ask me I say, I guess I still miss her,
but she's just another old friend, and we talk now and then.

Your seven sorrows and the past are going to dry you out,
if you don't release them or wash them out.
I'm going to do what I said and move back south,
because friends around here are rare,
and I've got some family somewhere.

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released July 10, 2021

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