California

This poem is about longing: to be elsewhere or elsewhen.

California is music,
California is fireworks,
California is cursive on a car plate in sunsets where stars await;
it is hope beyond hardship,
love beyond failing,
light beyond clouds;
California is where dreams wander when the heart is weighed down

California, California,
someday I will be yours
passing over mountains
in search of endless shores;
California, California,
tell me you are real
and not just a fantasy
that in my dreams I steal

Written between November 2019 and January 2020

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