poem
Updated: Oct 14
by Sean Cho A.
poem nearing middle-life # 2
it wasn’t that we didn’t learn
our lesson. it’s that the thing dragging
us back into the lake of Half life of XXX
& How to hide pupil dilation was stronger
than the half read pamphlets on The First Step to a New You!
& Not Your Grandfather’s Twelve Step Group
there are so many parts of we
that I’ve kept hidden from you. too afraid
it would change the way you looked
at me. but to tell you now
would be asking you to renarrate
every story you’ve known about me
every What did you do today
and Sorry the meeting ran late
it’s a shame how well we can act
well. it’s a shame to be left
in hiding with no seeker. the way
the star had its very last explosion
a decade ago but its final light
will not reach the back of our eye
until we are much too old
to find wonder in the distance it traveled.
Sean Cho A. is a writer from the southern United States.