Playlist (A Poem)

My playlist has become a cemetery
of songs buried
under flashbacks of long drives,
lip-synching
and hazy skylines.

Your misplaced notes
still sing to my soul.
Back then, time swirled to a stop,
and we became the sum
of two notes strummed
on my heart, a lifetime ago.

Now, I travel these roads
wrapped in silence, no music.

©️2025 by Jermaine Reed, MFA

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