Again

Imagine

an echo on pause

Just now reverberating to your ears

A replay found in later years bounced back by

the cave’s hard, tall walls, and hollow holes

filling empty spaces you thought you filled

A shadow of what used to be

an argument, a word, a feeling

born not from current circumstance,

but from events that happened in the past-

A record that begins to skip, missing a beat,

start of a slip, not destruction of the song-

just a misstep, mistake, one that was never

meant to make, and will never happen again

Please let me sing

again