54/M/The Exclusion Zone Married to Mrs. Timetable.
Surreal picture by Justin Peters.
New book "Exiled to Dusk" available here:
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Reliving The campus life Now an adult Not a student Maturing From youth in revolt Thought I knew it Community Primed and prepared Was imbued with Immunity To feeling scared Could adapt Integrate And cohabitate Seamless Aspired To overcome Mountains of needless And heedless of warnings To opt for realistic I shot for the stars Like a missile Ballistic But missed it The mark Overshot The world peace And crash landed instead On an uncharted beach
You had that certain glow When our eyes first met Like stars that had learned to shine, And within your adoring gaze I found all I had sought Sparkling like depths of gold. Time slowed down just for us As if fate had whispered Because it wanted us to. But, now I watch from afar As emptiness clouds my heart, Knowing that someone else will bathe In what I once called my light.