Uppercase I

By EleCivil

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1. Just a few less steps to the porch from the grass
2. When you whispered “Let’s cut for the shore.
3. Let’s whistle songs about seascapes and skylines
4. And pretend that we’re marching to war.
5. When the sun trickles down like the sweat from our hair
6. Leaving puddles of dusk on the sand,
7. Then we’ll run back inside and we’ll sleep ‘till there’s light
8. Then we’ll run out and do it again.”
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10. Five less months to the day when you took a step back
11. And you raised just one hand to the sky.
12. Said “Orion’s alone with his back to the Earth,
13. And sometimes, I think, so am I.”
14. It looked to me like I’d had nothing to say
15. Except “I don’t know what I should say.
16. We’re just lower case letters with Uppercase Eyes.”
17. You smiled, said “Turn the damned page.”
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19. Couldn’t tell what they were until we got in-
20. The sounds were so foreign back then.
21. I heard each report crashing cold, static, short
22. We just looked at each other and ran.
23. Punctuation perforated all through your wall
24. Plaster puncture wounds brilliant and screaming
25. Each period said “No, I marked no end,
26. But next time? You’d better be leaving.”
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28. Hope you found seascapes and hope you found Earth
29. Hope you found safety in skylines
30. Hope you got a window built street-side West
31. To watch sunsets and traffic colliding.
32. Hope you got out, hope you made it there safe
33. With your old name and secrets in hiding
34. Hope every night you forget your mistakes
35. Hope your Uppercase Eyes keep on shining.