Chasing Pavements — Adele: Song-Inspired Entry
I looked down the dirt road leading to my new home.
Skin-colored boulders lined the pavement.
Trees with weeping branches at the wayside.
The roof caved under the weight of heartache.
My mother sobbed on the cement, not understanding that I’ve felt this way my whole life.
At least not in that drunk state of mind could she recognize.
I loved hard. I fell hard.
Gravel roads and skinned knees and broken dreams made me.
I’ve never broken a bone, but I might as well have.
At least then the pain would cease.
You came around in your baby blue Bronco — just someone I was supposed to pass the time with.
Instead, you drove for what probably felt like an eternity.
Was it worth it?
I was in the passenger seat, daydreaming about what names you’d give our kids
How about Karma?
Only two weeks had passed. We should’ve been nothing.
Now I’m wasting the night away,
wasted on my heartbreak,
caring for a wasted shell of a woman I used to know.
She was everything I couldn’t be. Wouldn’t be. Refused to be.
I wish she weren’t so intoxicated.
Maybe then we could’ve spent the night on the phone again.
It was like the movies until it wasn’t.
In the movies, he turns the car around.
You mentioned how we never really saw their life after that.
How they left the problems without answers.
You and I could make up the ending…
Find some solutions.
I know we’ve both got work to do.
It’s hard to trust your promises.
I imagine you think it might be hard for me to keep mine too.
It’s not. Not if you stay in my life. Just give me some time…
I’ll keep chasing pavements because I know they lead back to you.
🧿🖤Elizabeth🖤🧿
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