A journey of unintended consequences

The prospect of meeting and falling in love with that special person is everyone’s life-long ambition.

By Stanley Collymore

 

It wasn’t supposed to happen; a routine, by all accounts

given the circumstances, quite ordinary day for me as

I sat on a bus increasingly being crammed on route

with passengers heading for a day’s outing at

a popular southern English seaside resort;

while for my part it was business as

usual as I was on my way to

another journalistic

assignment.

 

Then on one of its scheduled stops you boarded the bus

accompanied by a young lad approximately 10 years

old and who as the bus continued its journey

concomitant with the telltale evidence of

emotional bonding and obvious signs

of unassuming motherly love and

tactile though not in the least

overbearing physical protection

within the ambit of that mass of

human souls standing around the

both of you I realistically

concluded that you

were his mother.

 

Fortuitously as the bus continued its journey

recurrently it seemed acting as an ongoing

repository for yet more people coming

on board at each stop that it made

this onwards thrust of human

beings inextricably swept

you and your son to a

vantage location where

you were both now

standing next

to me.

 

Secretly, I’d watched you from the moment you boarded

the bus and was deeply impressed by everything about

you that I observed; now I acted much more boldly

and was delightfully heartened by the fact that

as you became intentionally sensitive to this

you equally displayed reassuring signs of

a reciprocal interest in me, evoking an

enjoyably mutual chemistry which

even in the public surroundings

of that overcrowded bus was

astonishingly perceptible

between the two of us. The die had been

cast; our souls had become one with

expectations enlivened, while a

new vista smilingly beckoned

us both with the thrilling

prospect of falling in

love at first sight!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

5 September 2013.

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Quite a read with this one..as you take us the reader through the lines of this verse and how it all unfolds in each stanza...the imagery you convey within each sequence...