Pusanweb Writing Contest 2002 - Fiction
 
Unfinished
  by Melodie
November 5, 2002


Saw you again.

We arranged to meet on the street.

Walking towards you,

Couldn't wipe the smiles off our faces.

 

Got in your car.

We drove and kissed and talked like we'd never been apart.

Sat on the hill.

Slowly, word by word, we started to spill.

 

(We were thinking) If I take you back now

With all of yesterday's clouds

There might be a few new blue skies

But you look in my eyes and

I don't know what you see.

 

Held you again

Remembering your skin

For all that I'd forgotten, it could have been a day.

How can someone so familiar be so easy to misplace?

 

Looked at your smile.

Did I notice a little less shine this time?

Or was a deeper knowing

Of where this is or isn't going

 

(You were thinking) If I take you back now

With all of yesterday's clouds

There might be a few new blue skies

But you look in my eyes and

I don't know what you see.

 

Either way we both know this is the last time

That we can throw caution so delicately into the wind

Either way we both know this is the last time

Can't let it rest in peace if we dig it up again.

 

I'm not sure

How to guard against being guarded

I'm not sure

How to deny that I know the odds

I'm not sure

How these endings all got started,

How to keep them going or how to make them stop

 

If I take you back now

With all of yesterday's clouds

There might be a few new blue skies

But you look in my eyes and

I don't know what you see.


 

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