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)