Future Me - Worriers

Here I am future me

On the corner of 5th and Berkeley

Glorified canvas socks and this shredded jean jacket

The corners that I end up on by accident

Between the leaves and sky I see negative space

When I followed some directions past your old place

Like a friend you can’t forgive but then forgot

Your house is on Your Neighborhood’s Next Top Parking Lot

When I leave you’ll never notice it

But I relive those years like phantom limbs

Your indecision, a lack of empathy

I should’ve left, I should’ve settled for lonely

Every slow familiar soundtrack brings me here

To the ghost I haven’t spoken to in years

My nerves were slowly stretching out the sleeves of every sweater

Rekindling old habits, knowing better

When I leave you’ll never notice it

But I relive those years like phantom limbs

Your indecision, a lack of empathy

I should’ve left, I should’ve settled for lonely

Dark nostalgia and the tapes I haven’t played

Since that deck broke in my old room

At the house you never went to

Here I am, future me