Blogging A to Z challenge: C

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C is for Cleaved

Cleaved

Walk past

the oaks that line the avenue.

The old school stares

through bricks framed by town colors.

Wave back

to pigtailed girls and crew cut boys,

to varnished seats in neat brown rows,

to a desk with the names of lovers to be

etched inside a pencil heart

carved in a quick secret

when faces turned to problems

chalked across the board.

Hold on

to that little heart scraped into the veneer.

It belongs to you, you know.

Somewhere between lunch and recess

between letters and numbers,

I left it there for you.