Sunday, August 18, 2024

train wreck June 2, 2012

 


June 2, 2012

 We don’t look at each other

 across the meeting room table, 

though she gives me a glance as she leaves, 

all this talk about photo credits

somehow hiding the real issues, 

 my inability to keep from

 rubbing salt into open wounds, 

mine and yet more specifically hers,

 I having posted poems

 about having a gun held at my head

 which I can’t take back, 

missing the important message 

she is trying to send me, 

emailed back and forth, 

giving credit where credit is due, 

we all lost in the limbo 

of missed feelings

 and this sense of a train wreck 

as whatever train we hoped 

to have ridden on 

went off its rail,

 and we are left to pick up the pieces,

 knowing that in this disaster,

 we won’t find them all,

 me, missing looking into her eyes

 and hoping to see what’s behind them, 

knowing now she has

built a wall

 impenetrable

 and perhaps necessary.


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