Random Recollections

let us take this thought and tuck it behind the left ear somehow that seems right and you know how I always like to be right, but this is not about me it's never me even if the facts suggest otherwise. the world goes on around us all around us as those unspoken words hang around the hint of a frown hiding just beyond the smile that waits he took his half-smoked cigarette carefully placing it back in the remaining box of ten deciding to save it for another place when there's more time do you remember those days when we laughed and cried tensions pulled us to the highest those emotions of that long ago moment screaming for immediate release and yet, we survived we're here and alive, still...