When the World Around you has Changed (aka...Leaving Newmarket)

I guess you cant stay in one place forever,

because the world around you has changed,

but you,

you haven’t,

and the still waters that run deep

through this town seem distanced

now that you are not

supposed to be here.

There are tears

joined with heavy places

that come at me

like a mountain top

comes down the mountain,

and though it spins me out

I feel awake, knowing

the weight I will leave soon

to rest with this forgotten place

will go lumbering off to live

another of its many lives,

overlapping, as change

outlasts us all.

I am left with nothing

but a solitary goodbye.

No words exchanged,

only sedimentary salutes

as silence hovers over dirt.

No understanding glances,

just the quite footsteps

as I walk away,

shedding my skin

like a snake

who has caught fire

in the underbrush

and is fighting

for everything in his life.