=====Citrus Boy=====

**Somewhere**

> What does it mean to end?
> Who are we, when it’s all over?
> And what comes after the close?
>
> I lie in my bed
> And I try to think
> And in the meantime
> The city moves in sync.
>
> Somewhere —
>
> //A cocoon awaits//
> //Blinds shutter open//
> //Hands grace a shoulder//
> //And trees reach for sky//
> //Frost bites//
> //Birds fly//
> //Glass shines//
> //Lights die//
> //Wind on a clifftop//
> //A life to define//
> //Paint trickles down//
> //Tide starts to churn//
> //A cat curls up to sleep//
> //And the fire inside burns// —
>
> I think that the world we know always turns.
> For even when the curtain falls
> The actors still get one last encore.
>
> I think that the tale we write always returns.
> For even when the poem stops
> Our eyes still get to read it once more.
>
> For even when
> We put down our pen
> Somewhere —
> I think our story
> still breathes.

— //Oscar Lee Murcott, 18//