This Poem was Submitted By: Jillian K Sorenson On Date: 2000-05-19 15:42:32 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Sidewalk Romance

When day fades slowly into night the sky graying while the sun sinks, they come.  She roars up on her motorcycle while he creeps slowly up in his blue-gray Taurus. They used to be more discreet, meeting only for a picnic or conversation leaving two feet of empty space between as they sat on the curb. Now she jumps in his car and they roar off to some unknown destination. When they return, they embrace their lips meet, their tongues search for happiness. I peer down at them.  If I wished I could yell things to make them blush, perhaps return their relationship to two feet of distance: "Why don't you get a room?" "What would your wife think?" Instead I just mutter them to myself. Today he shows her his wallet perhaps pictures of his children filling her ears with empty promises of what could be. She roars off and he creeps home to tell his wife stories of late meetings and traffic and I am left on my balcony utterly alone.  

Copyright © May 2000 Jillian K Sorenson


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