TWO PEOPLE
I saw two people
today, standing
almost together
and then, there was
the sound
and everyone
looked up
and spread out;
I could see it
in her eyes,
she just wanted
to be closer;
I was a coward,
I couldn’t do it.
We stand
looking at each other
from so far away now;
and I wish
I hadn’t been
so brash in my
assessment; to
push her away
like that.
– Larry Berger, HashtagWV #124. April 2020.
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