I wrote this one evening last week at a bar in Cyprus while watching a Neil Diamond tribute singer. It was a great night but the need to put this down just came out of the blue and this is probably the first piece I have even written on my Razer Smartphone. It could probably do with some editing but it’s just about seeing a face on the street that you’d like to know, fell in love with for a fleeting second before they are gone.
Girl.
We walked opposite sides
Different streets
Just looking ahead
Our faces never met
Our hearts only bled.
And what a life we could…
… Have led.
But know. We never met
In the middle of the road
And now … unshed tears
… At what could have been
If we’d ever met,
But we walked different sides
We found our love elsewhere
We never knew our own.
You know…
… The one we never knew
… never discovered,
… Never knew
Never imagining we could have been
We said goodbye
Before we even said hello.
… To all we never had
And just the wrong turn of a card
Dice that landed a different way
And we walked on by.
Copyright Stan M Rogers 2018