i walk down this hallway

silently still admiring your every movement

even as you turn your back to me.

how sad that this is what we have been redused to--

that two people who could have stopped the world

with their love

have now become empty shells of what they were.

the blinds are now tightly pulledand the lights

strategically turned off.

heaven forbid you have to look

at the pictures you couldn't bear to take down.

so we walk this hollow hallway

cliche:

we're so close

but so very far away.