Five steps ahead, Five steps behind.
Five steps to a smile, Five steps to laughter…
Five steps.
Five steps to stare at the ground, the sky-anywhere else but here.
Five steps to ignore.
Five steps to pretend that you don’t remember.
How sad, these Five steps,
who destruct friendship and create distance.
Five steps transform;
Into miles.
Into years.
Into strangers.
Five steps.
Five steps to change.
—Alaina Loomis (copyright)