The scent of sunflowers in summer: coda

[homer1950]

the stars struggle against the clouds tonight and
awkwardly, 
we stare at anything but each other. 

--the end wasn't supposed to be so undefined 

two almost-adults grasping for adult words, 
because the puff puff pass that has come 
to be our language can no longer describe 

"the end of an era," you finally say. 

--in a different age, in a different life
--if you weren't so laissez faire
--and i wasn't so complicated 

i might've needed you to be happy
but i don't need to be happy. 

we share no tears, no hugs, no goodbyes. 
only a twisted thick acknowledgment 
of the history that has come to pass through us.

For two almost adults they are using words as if it were in social room at the retirement home. I know that may sound harsh but no teenagers talk like they are trying to do a quasi version of the ending of the movie Casablanca. 

End of an era
Different age
Complicated 
Laissez Faire 

laissez laissefaire