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White Van

meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
edited February 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I saw a guy treading desperately against the traffic between lanes
Holding his mouth with a bloody, soiled cloth
Cars slowing to catch a glimpse
Of what he had become
I know he had a childhood
And he had a mother who nursed him
And gave him life
Along the way something turned
And the desperate blinking of his eyes
Didn't match the shuffling of his broken feet
Inside the mind under the haze were
Memories of a bright future
That were lost on the road somewhere

I gave my wife away one night
I gave her to a man in a white van
At an airport
I didn't see her eyes because she was putting her bag away
I couldn't kiss her for the last time because it was rush hour
And as I slumped away without looking back
I touched her wedding ring through my pocket
Against my leg
And I realized that the man I gave her to never deserved her
Like I did
The man who found her on the sand at the beach
Never reached over to her pillow like I used to
To check for warmth just so he could close his eyes
The man who recycled her yet again
Never felt the pain of the little girl that I inherited
Never figured out that love shines through eyes clouded with pain and fear
But you have to know it's there

Never shared the glow of a good day among bad
Never created life and death with her on the same day
Never felt alive and dead
And empty and bloated
Encouraged and Hopeless
Horrified and grateful
All at once

He never put in the time
That I put in
Only to hear from someone through the crackling of a cell phone
That the dream she begged me to share
Was ripped away again
Because the chapter had ended
Not because there were no more words
But because there were no more pages
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    :( That's a sad story.
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  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    there can be words without pages.....there can be love with hate.....there can be death/fate.....life.....never leave your wife......with strangers....awful dangers will happen to you later....when God equates her misery with you...because what did you do.....you betrayed her trust.....and I must say her lavender eyes.....surprise me
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    ISN, I'd be happy to tell you what it means if you're interested. Your interpretation, I suspect, is way off.
    San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
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