As she savors the taste of the invisible,

she realized the day was long as it looked so bleak.

She had to get a hold of herself.

The longer she waited and waited

the harder it was going to be to let go.

The chase was old; she realized she was just way too old for the race.

Driving the old highway of life

The destination quite unknown!

She saw him standing there

Not menacing

Maybe a little mousy

What a coincidence

Wherever she goes

There he is!

Somehow she is not frighten

Of a shabby scarecrow of a man

She feels just as vague as a leaf

Now the fear is no longer vague

The terror is really there!

Has a form

He was beckoning her

He wanted her to die

She didn’t know what to do!

Stabbing little thoughts frighten her brain

Ugly frighten thoughts!

Projecting of tomorrows and the next day

It is all nightmarish alone

Towns fly by like a nightmare

Scared out of her wits

Holding her thoughts like a movie

The story is yet to be told

She is left all alone!

No birds singing

Just the cries of the lonely

He was so different from the mousy man

A man of a caring nature

She somehow trusted him

Wanting him to be near her

Taking him for his word!

An enemy of her dreams!

She needed someone to help her

A warm familiar voice

So she would not lose her mind!

Where would she be?

Very odd

The fear has left her now

She is numb

It’s like someone has pulled a plug out of her!

Everything, emotions and fear has drained out

Now she is a cold shell

She is conscious what is around her now

The vast night

The stars that look down from the darkness!

A head of her stretching a thousand miles

Of empty land, mountains, prairie and desert

Somewhere he is waiting for her

Somehow she will find out what he wants!

Just now

For the first time

Looking out at the night

She thinks she knows!

With every breath she breaths

He took it her last with him!


Savoring the invisible

Was to her demise!


"Three can’t keep a secret if two are dead!"

Benjamin Franklin

By: Debbie Brooks 2014