Empty street and the song

 



I walked a couple miles,

Down an empty street,

Dark, only streetlights light the path,

Sluggish feet dragging and all,

The music crawling from the earbuds,

Into my ears, it’s a drug,

I whisper the lyrics,

They echo from the abandoned buildings,

I scream into the darkness,

And it comes back to me,

Wind carrying my voice back home,

To my vocal cords, and I swallow it back,

The empty glass bottles rattle,

To and fro, they hit the curb,

The song’s beat flows smooth,

A happy beat, with sad lyrics,

A true contradiction and it makes me smile,

The heat, sweat moistens my forehead,

I lay down on the road, the cold asphalt,

I watch the traffic lights change colors,

Except no cars show up,

And time seems to have stopped,

Nothing was more peaceful.

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