Tag: tree

He didn’t belong and I didn’t know why.
How tightly joined to the earth it was.
All I felt was a shattered space.
I walked the streets looking for people who might look at me.
Then everything became terrifically clear.
He’d never been in a fight
The friends met for dinner
She waited, closed her eyes
The sound was as clear as speech in a room
He still dreams of the river
They sit quietly for a long time
For a few seconds he wondered if he really saw it
Do you see how this used to work?
It was impossible to know anymore
Do you really need that thing?
It just happend more slowly in real time
I’ve always known the tree was there
I stand squinting in the daylight wanting to yell
I had been sad. I had been numb
There are some decent people here
The world behind his closed eyes was even stranger
So they moved on and on
Then she signalled him to follow
The girl was exactly where she’d been before
Because some things can be put off and others can’t, or can’t anymore
What if the story isn’t over yet?
How beautiful to be seen
The quiet of the living is one of the great reliefs
Over there on the other side, it’s like that all the time
Tomorrow I will be on an airplane home
I had something important to declare
I didn’t know how to reply
The night before, we loved each other still
I was a joke, and my life was a joke
There was no one around to see it
Stop and glance over the journey we have just made
It is full of hope and promise
Will you keep an eye out?
There was zero danger here
Maybe gives the gods a chance to pass you by
I had nowhere to go, nowhere I had to be
I’d had a dream and I’d chased it and almost chased it down
The plane was taxiing down the runway
You sure we’re going to the right place?
I certainly didn’t know where to go
We hadn’t said anything for a while
The silence was broken by the howling of a wolf in the distance
The moment was gone, replaced by reality
But that was just a moment, and moments, by definition, are momentary, and pass
So I was free