Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Mind Games

We sat on the bench to cool down, you clearly more spent than I.

I don't remember anything you said until the words: "she's flying there again in May."

Sensing an opportunity, I said: "I wonder how people like them keep it going. It must be hard."

"She must trust him a lot."

"And he must trust her a lot too," I added, trying to push the point.

"You never met him, did you."

I shook my head slowly, heavy as it was with unspoken things.

The conversation stopped there as you bent down to tighten your shoelaces, but continued unfolding with menacing speed in my mind, gathering force, a boulder rolling off my tongue, catching your sleeve and dragging us down an exciting, terrifying slope together.

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