Transcontinental (414 hits)
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Submitted by March of flames <astheruinfalls> (View user info) at 2005-02-01 00:48:57 EST
Transcontinental phone calls hold us together. A simple telephone wire decides our fate. What happens if it ceases to exist, does that mean she ceases to exist in my mind?
No, it can't mean that. I have thoughts and memories of her that will always remain.
I will never forget her, I can't.
Promises that were made when the future is unknown. The future holds twists that can break a promise like a flimsy twig.
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Driving down a road I slip deep into somewhat of a trance. Somehow my actions and my brain keep running but my eyes and thoughts deceive me. Lights flicker by, some green, some yellow, oh here comes a red one. Whoops I hope those other cars don't get too mad.
You know that feeling when you are doing something but you somehow don't know what's going on at the same time? Yeah, that one. That's what I feel.
My thoughts wander; mostly about Marie. Across the sea is Marie. I haven't seen her in over three years and all I have to remember her by are my memories.
Marie always was the one for me, ever since I can remember we were the best of friends. Over time the friendship developed into love that will someday grow to something in the future. I don't know maybe we will get married, have kids, live the "American Dream" as it's so frequently called.
But maybe is a far shot from the truth when you're separated by thousands of miles of ocean. I have come to believe that "Maybe" is a weak word.
Lights flicker by in an instant. Some green, some yellow, wait here comes another red one. This is the second one today; it looks like I'm shooting for a new record with this one...
Peripheral vision lends me the site of an oncoming car. It's too late to act now and all of a sudden, everything turns to black.
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I don't remember all of the details of the accident but the doctors clued me in when I woke up two months after it happened. Apparently I had been hit by a car heading perpendicular to me. My head slammed into the steering wheel instantly knocking me unconscious. Along with numerous broken bones I accumulated I also suffered memory loss. Unlike most people that lose all their memories after the accident, or that lose just minute memories; it seems that I lost all of my memories of everything. I had virtually become nothing in the form of a human body. Funny... how something that can take years to build, can be erased in a single second. It makes you think how "full-proof" the mind really is.
I returned home soon after I woke up and after they tested me to make sure everything was working again; well, besides my memories.
Sleep is the only thing I have now.
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I awake with a start and my contemplating mind is shocked out of its thoughts by the ring of a telephone. I slowly bring my head up from my hands and reach out for it, momentarily holding my hand over it wondering if it's my psychiatrist or not. She calls on a daily basis and I just don't have the nerve or patience to talk to her right now.
Okay, fuck it I can't stand this damn racket my head is already pounding enough as it is.
"Hello?"
"Hey it's me, why haven't you been returning my calls?"
"Yeah I'm sorry about that I've just been sleeping a lot and haven't been able to get to the phone"
"Well, I've just been wondering how you've been doing? Good?"
"Yeah, I'm fine besides the splitting headaches and everything. I think you should prescribe me more of the painkillers so it will subside."
"Adam, what're you talking about?"
"Those painkillers that you gave me last week at our session. I seem to have misplaced them... or something."
"Adam what's wrong with you, I haven't even seen you in over three years."
"Wait... who is this?"
"Its Marie, Adam, what's going on with you? You don't return my calls, and now you pull this?"
"What are you talking about?"
No answer.
"Hey, whoever you are stop calling me, I don't even know a Marie and I never have."
I instantly end the conversation by hitting the "off" button. "Hmm, must have been a wrong number. How did she know my name though?"
Now look what she did. My head hurts from thinking.
God, I really need those painkillers right about now.
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The future holds twists and turns that can change everything.
Promises are broken in a single second
Hearts are shattered from one simple accident
A life is forever forgotten
Tears pitter-patter on the ground thousands of miles away
Signaling the end of something that once was
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Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-02-01 11:25:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yessss,
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-02-01 11:17:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
If this were a movie, it would be a chick-flick.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-02-01 10:55:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Super good.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-02-01 08:22:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Auron (user info) at 2005-02-01 08:14:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I really enjoyed reading this.
Submitted by ariseymour (user info) at 2005-02-01 07:28:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn good piece.
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2005-02-01 02:13:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I still love your writing.