Blue & 500 miles ahead

He had to change jobs
He was moving, leaving her
Cold wind growing


Curled up in the car
you ask tentatively, "What's wrong?"
She shudders a little
watching rain come down on your windshield
wet, soft
driving past garish skeletons
Halloween set ups in the front yard
She shudders thinking of you leaving
heart wrenching agony that comes with it

You were talking about moving
leaving
word flashed again like
nightmare skeletons in the yard
leaving, mixed with past flashbacks
flashes of how much it hurt
every time someone close left
It's hard to make it in this town
cold wind growing
gnawing into dread

leaving
when you move to another city to get a better job
She's missing you terribly already
She's trying to imagine how she'll feel when your gone
She try's to tell herself,
"You were never here in the first place..."
You never changed your phone number to 805
She feels like something's missing...

How you felt when she wasn't there
at the movie theater last week,
You told her,
"something's missing"
She's trying so hard not to see how much she'll miss you
how attached she's become