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Front wheel squeaks
Chain skips once
Morning’s pale and half-awake
Loose strap slaps
On a faded pack
Full of things she doesn't take

Old blue hoodie
Zipper stuck
Phone turned off and tucked away
Pedals hard through
Empty streets
Past the house she left in May

She rides back to the breaking place
Where he walked off
Never turned his face
Tire tracks through the mud and weeds
Heart still hanging in those crooked leaves
She rides out where the branches bend
To the spot where their forever
Met its end

Bench by the store
She used to wait
Buying gum to waste the time
Sees their names
Scratched in paint
Watches letters blur and shine

Backpack heavier
Than it looks
Rough rope pressing through the seams
She knows every
Crack and turn
Like the backroads in her dreams

She rides back to the breaking place
Where he walked off
Never turned his face
Tire tracks through the mud and weeds
Heart still hanging in those crooked leaves
She rides out where the branches bend
To the spot where their forever
Met its end

Bike laid down
In the leaning grass
Wind pulls at her sleeves
His last words
Still on her tongue
Stuck like broken teeth

She touches bark
Counts old scars
Every year they carved a line
Whispers
“Guess
You got your space”
And steps back one more time

She rides back to the breaking place
Where he walked off
Never turned his face
Tire tracks through the mud and weeds
Heart still hanging in those crooked leaves
She rides out where the branches bend
To the spot where their forever
Met its end

Backpack open
Rope unwound
Then a distant engine whines
Someone calling
Through the sound
Her white knuckles start to slide

Bike still waiting
By the tree
Rusty frame and tangled chain
She walks home
On trembling feet
Leaves the old bark
To its pain