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themute
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since 2006-05-08
Posts 469
Maryland

0 posted 2006-07-15 03:56 AM


I’m so sorry I didn’t go with you to the store today
You left without saying goodbye
  I was asleep
You’d done it before
And without any thought
We needed eggs and salt for breakfast
I wish it wasn’t important to me then
But it was

Skin touching mine
Then not in a hurry
You wanted to get there before the sun was shining
You and your love
For the time just before dawn
So when you have what you want
The sun will be shining brilliant

My thoughts then were still
And now I’m searching for a good reason
I long for your presence
We never have the time
Your feet walking on our wooden floor
I can wish forever
We will never have the love I wanted
It’s not your fault it’s ours

Sun shun threw the window
My eyes opened harsh
I didn’t hear your back and forth feet
Didn’t think about it
I drank from the milk carton
And turned on the TV to watch paid programming
You didn’t walk in
When the spokesman told me it was just 29.99

I looked outside the window
Empty street and empty sidewalk
A ghost town
I called your cell phone
Your answer wasn’t there
I got on sweats and a white shirt and flip-flops
Hurried to the door
And in between apartments
On the staircase below me
I hear feet hit the floor
A grocery bag rustles
I called your name, Caitlin


I am the two-toed wanderer

[This message has been edited by themute (07-15-2006 04:27 AM).]

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Kristabell
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since 2003-11-29
Posts 678
Portland, OR
1 posted 2006-07-15 04:01 AM


A harsh thing here...

Kristabell

"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

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