if you stayed
the streetlight would suck stars away as always
night would pool in lakes
the seasons would come talking of weather
to people already complaining that it is not so and so
compared to last year
if you stayed
there would still be people at a cheap diner
with years of marriage in between them
who would say nothing to one another
for what could be said
after all was
only to find out
it wasn’t that interesting
after all
if you stayed
tea would still seep over grade eight art projects
fathers would help with bones baring
worries of what will there be to show for
and mothers would be in the other room
drinking coffee
if you stayed
i would still miss you daily
if you stayed
blue would be blue
yellow yellow
and men would fall for pink
if you stayed
i’d see amazing things
that would leave me speechless
wondering if words were enough
though i’d scribble on
if you stayed
there would’ve been fights
about trivial things
like why there are fights
about trivial things
if you stayed
i would convince myself
when wondering how far is a light year
or if there were dogs who would live
longer than me
that i did not love you
if you stayed
we would die
with death still written in smudges
and i would be both enough and not
total and incomplete
trying to write neater
on cheques i owned to banks i didn’t
if you stayed
the door would’ve looked a little less closed
to anyone else who would come in after
those complaining floor boards would
continue creaking familiar footprints
worn from years of you
and the clothes would colour our care
in quick love etched out as monuments to us
and all we would build together
if you stayed
there would be friends commenting
on how long even our bad
farewells were
if you stayed
i would dream of
what it would be like
to be here
if you stayed
oceans might’ve separated us
despite us being us
the sea
the sky
the sun
if you stayed
i would not have to
repeat it as much
and the results
would’ve been
the same
Mizpellt wurdz 
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