Monday, July 7, 2025

The secrets she shared Out. 24, 2012

 

I keep thinking back to that night then morning when she told me she had needed to work things out by having sex with a stranger she met at the local bar, how shocked I felt, though now after all dark water gone under the bridge, I realize just how honest she'd been, as if she had inched open a door to let me peep in to her soul, and I was too stupid to realize how special that was, not just that moment but others those intimate details she shared which at the time scared me, while now -- if not enlightened then sad about how I manage to miss it, losing it all in the blink of an eye with no way to go back. here on the brink of Extinction as she goes off carrying her secrets with her and I wonder just who she gets to tell these things to and if that person understands better than I did, her sharing things she could trust with no one else, this was the biggest loss, because like a river, the flow never goes back and all gets lost in the limbo of time, leaving me too stare after it, ashamed and saddened by it all.



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