A series of goodbyes

I'm up to my eyeballs with the hard stuff

losing folks, losing trust

asking what got the better of us?

looking back and finding rust


Settled in to a wave of goodbyes

like a western on a wet night. 

and now and then I buckle at the knees, 

I long for the old guard in a heartbeat. 



I see my youthful pedestal 

a place in which I always fall 

The social norms, the heavenly fall 

The playground 


 playground.