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Echoes

Writer's picture: Siena LongSiena Long

“if you love them, let them go,” they say

but why would I give up someone I love?


I wait in silence

maybe for your return,

but because some love

never fade, never die.


They’re buried deep

beneath mistakes and time.

yet still they linger,

refusing to be forgotten.


Or maybe I should close the door,

but I would never

lock it, or throw away the key.


I could walk away,

but where would I go?

nowhere feels like home

without you.


no one else could carry

what we were,

just young and immature.

or what we still are,

in every breath I take.


the silence is deafening,

louder than anything I’ve known.

I wish I could fix it,

but that means fixing ourselves.


I would give anything now.

to feel you beside me again.

to trace the shape of your face.

to hold you in the silence.


but time doesn’t stop.

it moves without mercy.


maybe it’s foolish,

maybe it’s hopeless,

but I wait, and I will.

I wait because you were my forever—

even if forever never comes.


my truth, I know, it’s clear, it stands,

a lighthouse glowing on the sands.

but there you are, adrift at sea,

lost in waves of who to believe.


growth demands, we break, rebuild,

And seek the spaces yet unfilled.

I cannot give you the light,

but I can’t dim my own to fight.


I stand in crowds

yet feel the space.

I hear the laughter,

but it fades before it reaches me.


maybe love is a song,

I never could sing well.

a language foreign

to my tongue.


but there’s a part of me

that still waits.

for your hand to reach

for your voice to call my name.


and until then,

I’ll keep pretending.

that the quiet doesn’t sting,

and that the cold isn’t permanent,


and the echoes don’t scream.


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