Shadows

Yeah, you. I’m talking to you. The one sitting in the shadows. I can’t quite make out your face, but I can see an open book and a faint light illuminating the words printed on the tissue-paper thin pages.

You’re studying something, and I think I know what it is. The pages are turning, your finger is running along, and you stop, your chest rises, and I see a profile looking off into the mist.

I look at the indentation on your finger, parallel lines indicating something that was there is not there anymore. Glistening in the moonlight, but you wipe it away.

You’ve seen what I’ve seen.

You look up, and I see a glimpse of me.

I, too, sit down and open my book. Waiting for the sun to rise and the sky to clear and our eyes to meet.

Published by Melissa

Welcome to the web’s millionth blog. I’m the world’s okay-est mom, I hate coffee, and I have a ton of kids that are kind of cute. Oh, I have no husband since he decided to permanently move upstairs. So that makes me a widow, too. Grab a glass of wine, and join me while we travel this most interesting life.

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