DEAD END STREET

DEAD END STREET

It’s where I once lived
On a dead end street
As I try to think back
That road just ended
It was just like my life 
When hope ran out
And there at the end
In a tall rusting fence
A locked metal gate
Part hidden in the trees
And I could make out
A path leading away
Perhaps to a realisation
That wherever that led
Was where I had to be

But I never had the key
To what may have been
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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November 25, 2023 at 8:58 AM
Congratulations on your winning entry, Howard.
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