Black and White Night

black and white night

Black and white night

Restrained

This old body’s not holding out

Pain

In so many places

The kids at the diner are playing songs from their youth

What is my soundtrack?

Who plays these songs for me?

The damaged

The used

On the cusp

Seasons soon to change

What will the kids play next?

They clean up

End their night

They live for the next day

And this guy looking back at me in the reflection in the window

He doesn’t really see them

He doesn’t really see me back

Just the pain in his head

And in his heart

So many places

So many nights like these

Black and white

And he’s somewhere in the gray