riding trains with strangers – 2

September 15, 2010 at 10:16 pm (Journal Entry, Short Story, Uncategorized) (, , , , , , , )

They were both in possession of grayish green magnetic eyes, drawing you, pulling you closer and closer. They penetrated you despite being completely inebriated.

Somehow amidst the blur they themselves were seeing only each other and their eyes fully committed. They pulled you and stretched your limbs to embrace their beauty. Somehow they had found each other. Somewhere beneath the musk of homelessness, takeout, after-gym stench, and street-purchased cologne, they found each other. They embraced and with a single kiss they exited completely unaffected by how they had drawn me closer and created my addiction to love.

They left me wondering, is it possible to love life, someone, or something too much, too deeply?

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