~
I passed you by along the way,
a quick hello, a kiss so brief
like dreams in nights of deep red wine
with music loud and feeling fine
inside my arms in drunken sway.
And what it’s left but sudden grief
of things that were, another time,
another you, another me,
another wish i left behind
in crumbled words within your hands
you tossed away my eager wants,
and passing by we let it be
a quick hello, a kiss so brief.
-
H.O
March 2019
“Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.”
― Shannon L. Alder
