red pavements.

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash

the world has settled down
a fever burning red
but with no sound
so i step out onto its places
just to get lost in a sea of faces
gum-stained, burning pavements
i am just a letter no one ever sent
here, feeling lost again
here, where i thought i was found again
just last week
remembering where but never when
my hand, your cheek
came and then it went
and now there is nothing left
but all of this
still burning red
and all of this
without a sound
as the world settles down