But I’ve searched and I’ve searched and I can’t find them.
The letters exist.
They are in my room but out of my reach like the
memories of us together.
Jeni Rose, where did our stars go?
Do you remember the stars and how they danced for us
during endless summer nights at the lake?
You said you’d never feel the same. He hurt you, you
said, like one had been hurt before.
His words cut you in the night, left you bleeding,
and the salt from your tears still sting.
How utterly silly it is!
Look at me.
All the bullshit about how I was going to be
Somebody.
Get a load of me now!
What happened to our dreams,
Jeni Rose?
I’m stuck in a web of consistency.
I’m still the same boy I was then
While you’re married with a kid in the way.
Now I ask you, who has it worse?
You said you’d never get married
And I said I’d get out of this town.
And as I remember you tonight, it occurs to me that sometimes
things never change.
And sometimes you have to work at it.
And sometimes memories are the only thing to get us through.