By Tanqueray Cowboy
Date: 2004 Feb 15
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SVD_040214

a funny thing happened on the way to the rest of my life

i turned around and you weren't walking beside me anymore

in a blink
a flash
a heartbeat

you were gone

and with you my past and my future

my past has become a distant dream
a long-lost cenotaph
of stone
of granite worn by wind and water
until
there is nothing left
but a curiosity
for those who might stop to wonder

my future is a nightmare phantasm

a waking dream made real

in which i realize
that my smile was your laughter
my strength was your support
my courage was your understanding
my future was your faith

and none of it remains