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Warned

My wife once whispered

Why I am always hurrying

Back and forth

I’ve no time

For her and my seed

Though they know

I truly love them both

I must share more time

While hurrying here, hurrying there.

Soon will come a time

You’ll catch up with yourself

As I exit somewhere

Along the way.

She said to me, as she turned

Away

When I needed her the most.

I arrived home

Late one evening

Just before the setting sun

The house I found empty

All were gone

My furniture, wife and son

What have I done

I questioned myself

Within my mind

Where has everyone gone?

I was left alone,

Was it because I was never home?

Now I am alone

To face the fears

I never suffered all this years.

I search the house

A feeling of loneliness

Shrouded over me

In the living room

I saw a man

Looking out the window.

I couldn’t see his face

Yet I possessed no fear

I cleared my throat

To attract his attention

There he continued to stand

I tapped him on his shoulder

He turned, startled!

I looked at his face

T’was like looking

Into a mirror, I saw myself

He looked at me, he saw himself

We stood there,

Both looking out the window

Both left alone.

By: William Bonilla

“D’Artagnan”

10/12/08