NYC Told Me All Your Secrets

A poem

Photo by Shaira Dela Peña on Unsplash

The way you walked through Washington Square Park
just to get lost in the crowd,
and threw a penny into the Bethesda Fountain,
in the hopes that maybe they made a wish about you, too.
It told me how you used to dance the night away
at clubs that have now turned into banks and fast food chains,
how you always sit at the same corner booth in your favorite diner,
how you wandered through the stacks of the…