Thursday, June 30, 2022

Do you ever...

Do you ever wonder what I’m doing, or where I’m living now?

Do you stop and think “perhaps she’s sick,” or “I wonder if her hair has gone grey?” 

Do you ever wish bygones could really be bygones, or you could turn back the clock? 


Do you think about the times we spent together, the Thanksgivings, that Christmas in 2010, the times I watched your kids or the time you rode the train with mine?

 

Do you ever wonder how things got so out of hand? 


Do you ever miss picking up the phone and telling me all your problems, and sharing your joys? 


Do you ever want to just talk about memories and laugh, or cry over those we’ve lost? 


Do you ever think I miss them too? 


Do you wonder if maybe, just maybe, this was all just a giant, cosmic misunderstanding gone horribly wrong? 


Do you ever stop and think how wrong this all is? 


Do you ever feel regrets instead of resentment?


Do you think we’ll ever see each other before we die?


Do you know I think about you and miss you? 


Do you even care?


...questions that will never be answered...at least not in this lifetime.

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