Only Lesson Left

I’d forgotten how fleeting and ephemeral

some moments and some people can be

Maybe that alone is what you were meant for

To be so sure of something I could rely on

to have it vanish helplessly into nothing

serves to remind me that all I can rely on

is that which is inside me all along

As broken and backwards as it seems

to someone that tries to see the good in the world

that’s the only lesson left to draw on

that sometimes even beauty and truth

can in a heartbeat turn ugly and cold

and all you can do is keep going