Where did all my old friends go?

Deniz Çam
Feb 17, 2022

I imagine a purgatory for all the people I’ve loved,

A place where they stay just as I remember them

Before they quit my life.

I was never good at farewells,

So, I know I’ll join them one day

And shock them more than they’ve ever shocked me

For they’ll have stayed just as they are

But I’ll have changed,

A woman to rejoice

In someone else’s disappointment.

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Deniz Çam

An up-and-coming New Yorker, who is sometimes neither up nor coming. Follow me on Twitter @DenizCam