I saw you again today- wearing the dress you wore the day my world fell apart. The green dress with the blue buttons. I smiled, you smiled back. It was if nothing had ever happened. As if my life had never seemed as bleak as the dead concrete surrounding, as if you had never seemed as cold as the fresh winter air. I turned the corner.
Looking back, it all made sense. Looking back, he could see how the girl was never going to stay with him. That even if he had given her everything, even the dreams he’d forgotten and those still to come, she was always contemplating her next exit. She was gone even when she was sitting right there. She was gone, and all he had was an empty wine glass to show that she had ever existed.
