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A Poem About Walking by Yoshika Colwell Is Beautifully Brutal in Its Honesty

<p>Yoshika Colwell’s “A Poem About Walking” reflects on love’s quiet collapse through sparse piano and tender vocals.</p>

On A Poem About Walking, Yoshika Colwell returns with a quietly devastating piano ballad shaped by isolation and hindsight.

The track, anchored by slow, measured piano phrases, leaves room for each word to settle.

Her voice is delicate but unwavering, folded into the melody like a thread pulled from memory.

“This poem, and then this song, is about walking up and down the beach in Broadstairs over the course of a couple of lockdowns,” Yoshika explains.

“It’s about not being able to hold it anymore, not being able to pretend something is working that simply isn’t working.”

The lyrics land like fragments recovered from a past life—“What a waste, a crying shame / It hurts to think I’d probably do it all again.” 

With each line, the song lingers in emotional places left too long unattended.

Drawn from a poem she found in an old journal, the track plays with time—not just in its narrative, but in its pacing.

Nothing feels rushed or overly shaped. It just unfolds, like thought, or grief.

A Poem About Walking leads into Yoshika’s upcoming debut album On The Wing with quiet precision—a prelude to solitude, healing, and the soft weight of reflection.

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Yoshika Colwell A Poem About Walking Lyrics

A suitcase full of memories, an entry I forgot
A poem about walking
We used to walk a lot
Back and forth, just killing days
I wish I had the clarity I had today
What a waste, a crying shame
It hurts to think I’d probably do it all again

You held it against me
And I held it against me
You almost convinced me
But I couldn’t hold anything at all

And even thenI think I knew
There was never somewhere safe
That we were walking to
I think you agree, lets not pretend
We knew right when it started

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