THE QUIET ROAD (Do you believe in Love?)

Dear Diary,
This happened as I came home, about an hour ago.
I parked the car and was walking inside.
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THE QUIET ROAD

Today I watched two lovers quietly fight
using sign language, and just mouthing the words.

"But I love you!" he breathed, pained and desperately,
"How could you?" as she silently flung his arms in the air.
Grabbing and holding, pushing away and walking.
Stroking and caressing, turning and stomping.

Their love was so visible and plain to the world,
as they staggered through the falling of the sky.
The evening was just turned dark, a bit cold,
streets empty but for the shadows of the moon gone awry.

But they were at the crossroads, literally on the crosswalk
in front of my house, stopped, standing, struggling to find the signs,
yearning for love yet straddling the lines drawn
down the middle of the road.

Blind in the dark, the driver of the car didn't see
them shouting at each other,
and they never read what he screamed.
But the headlights, like two braille dots,
punctuated their sentence completely.

Their hands covered their eyes.

Love causes many accidents, wrapped in the narrow view
of those who fight and argue. I try to breath.
I yelled to them "Hey, get out of the road!" but it was too late,
and pretty stupid, and I was too slow.
They had already walked off across the street, shattered and alone.

I don't know how people choose to find love in the world,
or how they keep their troubles still.
But the whispers that scream and the hearts that fling,
I know, I have seen. It does grow if one watches for love
and travels down that road.

Going inside and up the stairs I opened the kitchen window
and looked out to the sky, the cold shadows, and the street.
Far down the block the man crossed the road,
found his car and held, held open the door
as she paused, touched him, and got inside.

Today I watched two lovers quietly fight,
and I learned to have trust in the world.















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Those are the facts anyways, you know, just what happened.
Do you believe in love?