Looking Back

-Do those who leave ever look back? There’s a question in his head that he can’t answer. It bounces around and resounds, so that when the phone rings, he loses all concentration. He ignores the ringing and tries to stop the echoes of the question, and the memories they drudge up, of a past that’s long been lost. In this attempt, as the echoes lose themselves in the memories, he starts to wonder if what he misses are the people who etched themselves into his memory or if in fact the memories could have been created without them. It makes […]