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Grey Days

Richard Schnap

I watch an old man inching down the sidewalk
His collar turned up against the cold

Past the church with the weathered stone
To the corner bar with the faded facade

There he sits through meaningless afternoons
Spending his pension on glasses of beer

As he watches the news on the overhead TV
That seems to come from another planet

And sometimes I see him whisper a song
Playing on a jukebox buried in his heart

While a teardrop forms in the corner of his eye
As if from some memory he’d sooner forget

But then as the daylight begins to grow dim
He’ll gather his change and rise to leave

Taking one final look at the mirror on the wall
Wondering what happened to the man looking back

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