Saturday, March 15, 2008

Out from under the bus

Bi life. 
She had one of those contagious smiles. Filled with sarcasm and guilt. The kind of smirk that made me wonder if she had more to offer than a handshake. We walked in silence, tiptoeing around the subject. Our paths had crossed this street several times while we had worn one another's shoes. That was how close we had been at twenty. This time it was going to get harder, the streets were now concrete. There would be no what if, how about now, how about never agains. This was us, in our own shoes, forgetting what it had been like to walk in the other's. I'm not sure what brought her here in the rain seventeen years later. Her lips were just as familiar as the jasmine in her hair. I wanted her to keep me entertained in the rain. Away from it all. On the safer side of the street, she and shes and theys could never splatter me on this new road. I've walked too far... "We just didn't have enough time to stand under the streetlights waiting for busses to run us down." she whispered. "So we threw ourselves at them, one after another, just waiting for them to slow down to see us." I never did care to look at where they all were going. She came to tell me she had missed this bus. It was only a matter of time before there will be another. So we stood shaking hands politely in the rain, learning lessons we had learned before. It is softer on the other side of the road. So we can relax for now, patiently, in the grass watching the world full of stinking buses pass us by. we have so much more time than this. crap in a hat i have to finish this thought later.

1 comment:

Jw_diesel said...

Wow man your words are great.
Keep the true thoughts rolling.
By the way where are you a ST at?
I grew up in VH and was interested.
Hope all is grand in Crystals land.
-JD