In stories there are no heroes
Just real people
Real people
Whose realities
You can feel
It’s that gray area
Where practicality makes
Love lose its appeal
But then what is love
And is it real
And did you really feel
It doubt crept in
And started to Steal (Steel)
Away the gray
Increasing the appeal
And after all that
If it was lost
Would it still be real life
And was it really real

Day 01
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She had not expected
That turn of events
To get angry pupils dilated
And then have it abated
So this is closure
The weight seemed lifted
And for the first time
She was starting
To see possible perspectives
Good possibilities
Of her present future
He had told her he would
Not interfere in her life
Her happiness was her right
But if she ever needed a friend
For anything
You know like
To shoot the breeze
Or talk about the pressure
No one seems to understand
You know like
How she was afraid
She wasn’t the right wife
That maybe she was the one
Bringing down her
Match made in heaven
And if anyone would know
He would
Sometimes you just need a friend
On your side
You know right
Wrong
Could help define
To reassure you that you’re
Fine
She was okay now
The bride to be
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Saturday midday
What time did he say
She looked at her watch
Unsettled
Like an egg that was about to hatch
Yesterday
About the same time
She had been on the phone
wondering if she’d lost her mind
That she had just made up
To move on
The day before
“Don’t say it,
Don’t say it.”
But there was no one around
On the same patio
Besides the ground
So as she waited she calmed
Her thoughts
By holding her head
Down
Taking in the sounds
And the sight of the ground
It was a good thing
Because anyone watching would
See her face change continually
From a smile to a frown
Closure he had said
That’s all they needed
For the last week
Discontent they’d lived it breathed it
And in the last couple days
Her future had drawn closer
But there was still one obstacle
Closure
She was … Continue reading

A day later he sat
On his first break
Anticipating the call that would come later
She had sounded rushed
When he called yesterday
So they had set up a time for later
Today
Was the result
Of schedules that didn’t seem to match
Making him wonder IF
they’d actually have that conversation
her voice was as he heard
Filled with reservations
Would he get that face to face
He was going to talk her into
That’s what he planned for this
Conversations
In the past
That went for too long
Never went too well
A whisper of the wrong phrase
And it all went to
Hell
He remembered the reason
They hadn’t spoken for so long
Was what he had said
Been so wrong
That time all he had heard
Was the *click*
No song
Could have drowned out
The sound of the silence
Was heavy enough
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The other looked at his phone
Thinking he had missed his chance
Two days ago the second call had come in
And that evening with a good friend he had
Chosen to stay in
Then decided to go out
So while in the shower
His phone had rang
And after he had come out
His friend had answered
And said there was no reply on the other line
At the time he had not seen the issue
Left it alone
“Probably a wrong number.”
He had said at the time
But the morning after he checked
And saw that it was the number
From the first time
That he had forgotten to check
He had asked another friend who might know
If she knew the number
And she had confirmed it was
Who he had thought it was
This mutual friend had passed on
the digits to his regret
And … Continue reading