Late Night Thoughts

i thought i had found you
but it was just a flash
of fool's gold

unreal unworkable impossible
and
ever so magnetically appealing
so much so
that it  became all consuming
every waking hour
finding you spreadeagled
across my mind

when i hear a song
like this one late at night
in the dark
in the quiet
by the glow of the fire
i sometimes wonder
what we would have been like
together

i can only think
we would have been
ecstatically happy
but these thoughts
were mine alone

so

with heavy heart
i sink into the cushions
fall asleep
awake to the sounds of the city
banging of garbage bins and trucks outside 
jump starting  the grind of the day
and  never think about you again

(until the next time )






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