November 15, 2008

Salted







He’s all too accessible and elusive.
Cryptic in his open pretend.

He shows me over and over that I will never be inner circle.
Not again.

I will never know him.
Not again.

And he has completely forgotten that I ever did.

In the all too familiar.
In the memories he doesn’t have.
In the memories I can’t shake.

I don’t want to miss anything.
I've already missed everything.

But in the end, I didn’t miss a thing, did I.
Not one thing.

It’s so hard to be right here and so far away.

8 comments:

may said...

if i got this one correctly, i completely agree. the unseen walls we build are harder to crush than the ones that are real.

Cormac Brown said...

I'm amazed how you can provoke such a great empathy for a character in so few words and for the awareness that always seems to arrive to late, in relationships.

LceeL said...

That's exactly what it feel like to have a teenager.

"Cryptic in his open pretend."

Wow.

vinny said...

This is great.

Bob said...

Yeah. I never understand how those doors can be closed once opened. I think it requires a great deal of pretense on the part of the door closer.

Zee said...

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Hermes said...

This line struck me:

He’s all too accessible and elusive.
Cryptic in his open pretend.


So subtle, simple, and amazingly beautiful.

emeralda said...

cryptic in his open pretend

exactly.

i know someone. we used to be best friends. i knew him so well and now he pretends.