Running Path
out for a run for the first time in my life
the air is numbing my skin to my bones
to match my under tones
of being defeated and feeling depleated
Soupy singing in my ears about depression
i’ll never sing again
made a hard turn down a gravel path
sun up high everywhere i look
picked the soulless route to get a buck
Soupy pleads “i’m waking back up”
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i’m spinning in circles with the gravel beneath my feet
i’ll never plead again
liquid spilled in my eye
blinding me from the yellow lights
that are brighter than the sun once was
i’m catching strangers in the ocean
while we are all singing to the same tune
our souls float above
you can see each one in the reflections from the disco light
Soupy holds on to the notes…
i sang again
