She asked, "Where the fish have you been?"...."Idiot, I was not even sure whether you were still alive?"...."Write, sometimes. Just once to let me know you still exist."
I looked at her and mumbled a half-meant apology. Then I went silent again.
A good 20 seconds later she said "Won't talk? Don't talk? Can't talk?".
I was numb, unable to answer, and yet, a few seconds later (swear this happened), the bars of the rhyme of the jukebox switch to the next song and play Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence.
Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable
In her exasperation, she does not listen to the words, till I pantomime the jukebox to her....finally a good many seconds later, she smiles a tired "give up" look.
The universe is strange, but its timing is rarely wrong.
I looked at her and mumbled a half-meant apology. Then I went silent again.
A good 20 seconds later she said "Won't talk? Don't talk? Can't talk?".
I was numb, unable to answer, and yet, a few seconds later (swear this happened), the bars of the rhyme of the jukebox switch to the next song and play Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence.
Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable
In her exasperation, she does not listen to the words, till I pantomime the jukebox to her....finally a good many seconds later, she smiles a tired "give up" look.
The universe is strange, but its timing is rarely wrong.
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