In South America, truck drivers are paid collossal amounts
of money, to deliver supplies between towns on
roads, no wider than the width of their trucks.
When you turned up on my doorstep that sunday in the rain,
your eyes told me before your lips did.
Sixty three hundred days is a long long time to wait for someone,
but I would do it all over again,
if it meant I could fall asleep in your arms one last time.
Next Autumn when the leaves turn rusty and fall from the trees,
I'll remember the afternoon we spent in Victoria park,
where you waded to the middle of the duckpond,
just because I said you wouldn't.
Your mother always told me when we stacked away the good china after Sunday lunch,
that your stubborness always got in the way of what was right.
You've been gone eight hours and still nobodies reminded me how difficult I can be at times.
Eight months later and everytime the phone rings I imagine your voice crackling down the line "come get me from the supermarket, I have sugar buns. "