What I've Missed - The Riot Before

The window’s a mirror when the sun is a light bulb

There’s some beer in the fridge it’ll help take the edge off

But if the last one was emptied out last night

Then it’s a block through the rain to a well lit corner store

An ambulance wail undulates in the distance

Does not reveal the direction it travels

Will it get further away

Or drive right down this street

My scenery built with

A stranger’s tragedy

And I tragically

Try to fight for the cause but then marry the martyr

Is that statue that stands in the park a celebrity

If so does it get its own groceries

Just like me

Does it forget the list

And then get lost in the isles

Walk in circles aimless

Looking for what it has missed

There’s something I’ve missed

So I’ll put on my shoes

Grab my hat and my coat

Turn off all the lights

Turn the locks and walk alone

Passed the houses, and storefronts, and streets

By all the people I’ll never get to know

Till I stop at your front door

I hope that you are home