That the Water Stole

These streets no more belong to us

They only cause me pain

The waterfront is murky hell

Only memories remain

Every winding side street of cracked cobblestones

Threatens to open up and swallow me whole
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My home is just a shell that I’ve abandoned

This place is just a conduit for dust

My home is just a crumbling facade

I've become a shadow, I’m a fraud 

Through every winding side street stumbles now a tortured soul

Searching for the future that the water stole

These streets no longer belong to us

There’s no us for them to belong 

And everywhere I go I have to look it in the face,

The tear in every landscape where you vanished without a trace.