Gunshots in Retrospect

idk.........

Take that road

That runs

Fast as a gunshot

Take that road

That runs

Through memory

Like pipes beneath your feet

That could never beat—

 

Take the road

And let it lead.

 

Fast as the gunshot

Fired last October,

That caught you

In the middle

And watched you splinter

Into a thousand pieces,

Like the braces

That could never hold

Against the cold

Cool, shiver-touch

Of metal.

 

Take that road

And fire backwards

Through the memory

To return to the chance

That could never be

What men call free

From gunshots

In retrospect

That never infect

And never bleed,

 

Just waste away,

So take that road

 

And let it lead

And see where it goes
Like pipes beneath your feet

That could never beat

 

The sleet that comes

To freeze, and shoot back

Bullets in the breeze.

 

Author's Note

what on Earth is this about? hahaha