DARKNESS

I sat in the darkness alone

Sitting on a desolate bus stop bench

In the neighborhood where I found you

Cool air hugs me and keeps me company

Its icy breath slowly paralyzing my body

I know you are somewhere in a café

Perhaps playing some gig in a smoky club

Somewhere I could picture myself

Waiting for you in the back

Like the other girls plotting to make you theirs

I saw myself being your girl

Remembering when I was the one

Sitting on the window sill of your place

Where someone passing by could see my silhouette

Outside of the sheer yellow curtains was darkness

And I kept my eyes on you

As you undressed me like you probably have so many

My back faced the window

Watching the glow of the candles

Gleaming upon your smooth burnished skin

I remember myself crying softly from the pleasure

And also from the fact that you will never be mine

My vision is interrupted and I see the headlights of your car

I watch you and another pretty woman hanging on your every movement

Soon her silhouette was etched against the sheer yellow curtains

Now I am that someone passing by

You undress her the same way I bet

She shivers from your touch and you smile because of your skill

A moment passes and I watch you raise the curtains

The bright-lit tip of your cigarette burns in the semi-darkness

Smoke curls out from your full beautiful mouth

You feel my eyes staring at you

My bus approaches and I take one last look at you

I stand under the street lamp so you can take full notice of me

You lower your cigarette and stare at me across the street

And I smile softly at you

I ignore your nonchalant wave

As I step on the bus, suddenly I feel lucky

You will continue to dazzle and seduce

But now you are a ghost to me

The one beautiful ghost that I must take flight from.

© Frangelica