Feb 11, 2005 18:58
Old habits die hard. I am still almost completely soundless when I cry, just my body shakes with sobs. And spilled tears surprise me with their heat and their taste.
And as he held me, there was a part of me that slipped away from the entire experience. That floated near the ceiling like a moth, and watched a woman crying silently, and a man who held her without speaking and kissed very gently her shut eyelids, and Sadness and Tiredness and Hollowness drifted like smoke about the room.
a few good men,
z