Loose gravel crunching
Slip sliding along
A lonely stretch of highway
Alone
Half lost and tired
Middle of nowhere
A light in the distance
That old tired car
Sleeping in the ditch
How envious still
Of a car sleeping
Trudging onward
Tiring feet
Exhausted limbs
Heaviest eyelids
The light in the distance
Blurring more and more
Just darkness
More darkness
The light extinguished
Empty highway
Crunching onward
Everything so silent
Just a quiet wind
Hard steps
Heavy breaths
Then nothing
Silence
I didn’t know it existed
Then it found me
Never thought it was real
There it was
Couldn’t possibly last
But there she slept
What a beautiful morning
It still was a dream
Even so wide awake
Quickly a nightmare
Things had changed
All that was
Existed no longer
So many happy memories
A terrible nightmare
Her beautiful sleeping face
Burned into my mind
A line once crossed
Can never go back
We could make it work
So very naïve
Or perhaps just hopeful
Years later
Barely a memory
The smell of that perfume
Not even bittersweet
Like remembering a movie
You saw on tv
Filled with commercials
Hardly paying attention
That’s all it amounts to now
Smiles forever ago
Followed by doubts and sadness
strength gained
A painful lesson learned.
We were always strangers
That afternoon we met
the evening we parted
Never ourselves
bad actors
Delusions of happiness
We never really were
Separate togethers
Strongest of wills
Not nearly enough
Brightest hues
True colours
Honest intentions
Simply not to be
Love?
So fleeting
Never there
Blinding lust
Intoxicating scents
Sex and fresh leather
That familiar perfume
Forever connected
Brief summer splash
Drops in the ocean
Whitewater of life
Eroding shores
Wasting precious time
Smiles and memories
Lesson and learning
Living to survive.
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