Monday, December 30, 2019

the long talk into the night

we talk long into the night
finishing a bottle of wine.

we say bitter things to one another,
words
we'll regret

in the morning. but it's truth.

the love is over.
what was
never was, we were passengers
on a train

going nowhere.

each afraid to get off. each staring
out the window
at others

at the station, also

hoping for the courage
to move
on with their lives.

we make no plans though to
do anything about it.

we sleep on it, and another
day
turns into another year.

the wind of time pushes grey
into our hair,
deepens our eyes.

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