Bliss
-I sit, the cold wind, uncomforting me, and you, shivering. The words carried away, we’re left in silence with nothing but gestures and stares. You half smile, as if trying to salvage something that’s already been lost. I can’t smile back, not even faintly, and it hurts. I know that’s all you want, a reply. To know that like you, I will dig deeper, even if in vain for a finite ephemeral moment of bliss, but I know it’s not there. It goes, with the long passages of time that disappear before me and suddenly I realize I’ve gotten older […]