Rearview Mirror from Waiting Room by Maria Kelly

On New Year’s Eve, I meet you here
You’re always different from who
I met last year

You roll your eyes at me
And say “you take things far too permanently”

When it’s over,
Part of me can’t bare to feel it
I’m older now,
Part of me still won’t believe it
I know, to let go
I know

We fight to find some common ground
Stories of school, and where they all are now

I stumble home, I make a list,
Not of the things I want, but the things I’ll miss

When it’s over,
Part of me can’t bare to feel it
I’m older now,
Part of me still won’t believe it
I know, to let go
I know

Can’t take my eyes off the rearview mirror,
I see my life, and it’s getting nearer

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