Poetry Buff

Lyrics: Zach Bryan, Leaving

Lyrics: Kat Hasty, Where the Wildflowers Lay

Of running so fast

To try and leave me in your dust

But instead

Just running circles around me

Are you tired, love?

Do you need me to hold your head

As you weep into my arms

Because you’ve tried to leave me in your dust

Just to prove to yourself

That you’ve made the right choice

In leaving me behind

Are you tired, love?

Of empty people holding

What’s left of the shell you have become

What’s left of the person I loved

Are you tired, love?

Of killing the parts of you that I fell in love with

Of running so far from me

But not getting very far

Are you tired, love?

Thinking about spending a summer away from me

Do you need me to hold your head

While you weep into my arms?

A year goes by

And then two

And then five

And then ten

And you’re married now, with babies of your own

You don’t think of the babies you could have had with him any more

But on those hot July days

Or warm September nights

You think of 89’ Chevys

The drive-in movies

Or duck hunting

You think of the days spent kayaking

Or fishing

You think of the dog in the canoe with you or sitting on the bank

Watching as we boated away

You think of the night where we left a big mark on a church parking lot

But also on each other’s hearts

And after, how we hid from the cops

You’ll remember cold March winds

Sitting on the frozen open ice

Or in the basement with the stove putting black soot up our noses

Or shivering in the bed

Trying to keep each other warm and laughing all the while

Maybe you’ll remember falling on the ice, with me on your shoulders

And the letters you wrote to each other

Maybe in ten years

With a house

A family

An amazing husband

You’ll think of those warm summer nights

Cold March winds

And early fall mornings

And you’ll wonder if you’ve ever felt home like that again

I know that what will be, will be And I know that you will only chose what is best for me But I really hope that what is best is him I hope that you can make him think of the good And that you can help him decide to keep loving me I know that the circumstance has created some difficulties But I really want you to know I love him And I hope that he will always love me Universe, I know you’re busy with so many things Good and bad But I just hope that what will be Is him with me