A Plan
I go out to the movies again, and your hand isn’t holding one of mine. I wonder if this is part of some kind of plan, or if it just spontaneously happened.
Garret Schuelke
SourceLicence:Public domain
I go out to the movies again, and your hand isn’t holding one of mine. I wonder if this is part of some kind of plan, or if it just spontaneously happened.
A person goes to the movies and notices something missing: the hand that used to hold theirs. The speaker never says outright that a partner is gone, whether through a breakup, a death, or just distance. The poem leaves that open.
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