No Mans Land

Saw my friend

Across the street

She’s lost weight

She looks deep

 

She walks alone

Stares straight ahead

She’s on her phone

Nodding her head

 

I’m going her way

I follow her feet

I’ll try and catch up

Then we’ll greet

 

She slowing down

Almost to a crawl

I’m seeing a frown

She ended that call

 

Now she stands still

Puts hands to her face

Not a moment to kill

Feel out of place

 

I whisper a quiet hello

She burst into tears

I say we should go

For a couple of beers

 

We sit away from the bar

She tells me her tale

She was going so far

Till the hammer hit the nail

 

Now it’s all changed

He’s decided to quit

Now she feels strange

And life is just shit

 

He dumped her by phone

Love now a foreign land

She hates being on her own

In no mans land.

©JMcN Dec2012