Reunion

About how seeing someone you used to have strong feelings for a long time ago can make you feel emotions you didn't expect, detachment, confusion, sometimes contempt

So many years come and flown on

Backwards, sliding into the past

And we're here again

Staring into each others eyes

Our nervous postures returning

To wretched bodies ravaged by time

All of the echoes of memory

Booming and fading in my puzzled mind

Struggling to placate my old longings

We found ourselves designed by fate

To meet here stuck in memory

Romance drawn from the heartbeat of this place

All reunions follow a similar line

Where everybody's surprised

How quickly the conversation runs dry

A quick feeling of elation

And the summer warmth within

Ebbs to an autumn warning

The gulf between us opening wide

And time gives less than it'll take

Ever downwards the night will slide

Stuttering and mumbling in speech

The pleasantries exchanged

Now we're in limbo

The heart's fire cooling now

And how we're surprised

All our words have ran out

All reunions follow a similar line

Where everybody's surprised

How quickly the conversation runs dry

Silence washing over, uncomfortable

And we squirm under the truthful light

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder

But more detached  

Reviews

[Pryde Foltz]

The case I am afraid. Sometimes expectation and memory are more satisfying than reality. But isn't kind of a gift when you finally allowed to let go. Nice write. You told an interesting story.

[Simon Welsh]

Some people just aren't worth the effort.