sifting through a box of old things

Book after book

pamphlet after pamphlet 

treatise on anxiety and depression 

.

.

.

I am brought back to a time 

when our lives were dictated by school bells 

And seating charts 

.

.

.

Where one rumor 

Became our entire world 

And one heartbreak 

Was announced through 

The speaker hung walls 

.

.

.

ages ago

An entire world away 

.

.

.

I pack it back up 

to look back at another day 

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.

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Weekly prompt @ NSTMP