The Walk Home

 I hear you behind me

I hear you gathering them

I walk faster and faster

If i can just get to the

crossing guard

 

It doesn’t matter

I feel the items hitting me

The pain with every item.

The laughter

The names

 

Maybe if I can make it to

the tracks it will stop

I fell them hitting me

How many do they have

The laughter with every throw

The names being shouted

 

I see the park

Now will it stop

Now can I breathe and relax

I feel them some more.

Hitting me

They have to be low now

The laughing

The names

 

I see my house I am home free

Now will it stop

I wait to feel the pain

Waiting for laughter

Waiting to hear the names

 

nothing

nothing

A sigh of relief

I made it through another day

Can I make it again tomorrow

this mile long walk

 

Can I make it

Will I make it

Written: 2018