If We’d Stayed

By: Micah Rauchon

You said you wanted to stay there forever

Nestled in the bed sheets we messed up the night before

Staring as the disco ball rotated on your ceiling

You took my hand and urged the clock to cease for us

Had we stayed like we were then i’d be with you now

Traversing the city you were raised in 

The east coast our oyster 

No pun intended

Had we stayed I’d be calling you mine between bites of LA life

Your family would make fun of my ignorance to the distance between the Bay and LA

Nights would be illustrated by car rides and beach filled shoes 

And i’d look at you on Hollywood sunsets and wish we could stay that way forever 

If we’d stayed i’d tuck this flower behind your red hair and watch as the sun gave you the perfect background

But we didn’t stay and your not here

Now the town you call home is overtaken by a foreigner you deported from your life