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Walk Alone
I walk alone where shadows lean,
Where yesterday still stains the street,
With every footstep tapping time
Against the hollow in my chest.
The moon hangs low like a witness,
Silent, silver, stripped of blame,
It watches me pass broken windows
That still remember my name.
The wind keeps asking where you went
It threads your absence through my coat,
Each empty sleeve, each breath I take,
Is proof of how much I still hold.
I pass the places we once stood,
Where laughter lived in open doors,
Now even echoes limp away,
Too tired to pretend they’re yours.
Streetlights flicker like old prayers,
Half believed and softly said,
I mouth them anyway, hoping
Something warm might raise its head.
My pockets carry fragments still
A sentence, song, the curve of home,
Things too heavy for goodbye
Yet light enough to walk alone.
Grief walks beside me like a twin,
Matching stride, refusing speech,
It doesn’t grab me by the throat
It simply stays within my reach.
But listen close beneath my boots,
Past cracked cement and midnight’s tone
There’s something stubborn in my pulse
That says this road is still my own.
Because even in the loneliest dark,
With nothing left to guide me through,
I keep moving scarred, upright
Dragging dawn behind my shoes.
So yes, tonight I walk alone,
With ghosts and hope in equal weight,
But every mile I manage still
Is proof I’m more than what I’ve lost to fate.
I walk alone
but not in vain
The morning waits.
I’m on my way.
Jason Strickland
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