Reflecting

I still think of you

Your eyes flicker at the edges of

The projector reel playing out

Before me

Inside my mind

A drop down list of all

The possibilities

Destinies

Between you and me

I hear you laugh

Ghost silent echo

Reverberates off the windows

To my soul

And I know

That I don't know

I just picked a direction

A direction that took me

Away from you and your arms

And your cute nose, and that pouty

Lip that made me melt

In the Dreaming

I cradle you

And our story is written

Upon the pages

In a library

Of all the books

That will never be written

Because this didn't happen

We never were

And all the cascading images

That pour over me

In a kaleidoscopic cacophony

Shattering on the floor

In a shower of fragments

That settles as dust on the floor

Small piles of my realization

Of where I am

Of who I am now

Of where my choices have taken me

I do not regret

I would not go back

But I linger here

Melancholy reflections

In quiet contemplation

Then a question

From the friend sitting next to me

Shaking me back to

The world at my periphery

And I am pulled from my

Ruminations again

To the present culmination

Of my decisions

And you slip away again into

The recesses of my reflections

Til I dream of you again