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Date Posted: 12:42:47 04/16/02 Tue
Author: Ian B Saxon
Author Host/IP: ctb-cache4-fe2.saix.net / 198.54.202.5
Subject: Crossroads

I thought to share a short piece of my book “Crossroads”,…the piece that started it all…when I wrote of happy times and the piece that stayed with me when I cried.


This is about love,……


… his words on the screen forced her to make a decision, a decision that would change her life forever,
without realization or a second thought…she just couldn’t stop herself from asking.
“I want to hear your voice, please, call me,…now?”
“Ha ha,..don’t rush things, darlin,…life is short, but not that short.”
“I have to hear your voice, Marc,…I want to make sure you are for real”
“ I am for real, girl, flesh and blood, …but maybe a bit shy. I am not too comfortable in the presence of beauty”
“Ahh, Marc, you are such a flatterer...”
“Am I? No my dear, even a blind man can feel your beauty”
“ I am not going to blush, ok,... really, Marc that is not the way I see myself’
‘Yeah,…but women are their own worst critics…take my word for it. Pictures never lie”
“You have only seen my photo, how can you be sure. I am different in real life”
“If you are, then it can only be for the better.”
“Flatterer….”
“I love you”
“Define love, Marc?”
“Love,…my dear, is when you see the most dearest of faces in that of every woman that crosses your path. It is the last thought you have before you go to sleep and the first you wake up with. It is that smile that seems to stick itself to your features, the song you sing throughout the day. It is the force that keeps you going while you ache for the next heavenly encounter, It is the name that rolls off your tongue with every thought and the promise of the next beautiful one.”
“Mmm, surely you are mistaking being in love with me with loving me …?”
“ Is there really a difference, dear, when every fiber in you screams for the person you want to be with?
“Falling in love with someone happens just as easily as falling out of love,…you know?”
“Maybe,…but being in love with someone you love is double the bonus, isn’t it?
“I suppose,…but how do you know you love me? Isn’t it all just your imagination?”
“No,…definitely not…this is more than just being in love, Jane”
“Well,… thank you sir, the thought is still new to me. I don’t know what to make of it, but I too feel the same way you do. If this is love, then I love you too”

How vivid does everything still seem? Every word thereafter, a permanent engraving in his mind, but also an accusation for not being able to see it through. The knowledge that he failed the woman he loves is etched into the lines of his face and witness to the smile that disappears just before it reaches the eyes…


...and the end...

…the mist lingers with every heartbeat and every pregnant moment before she smiles and slowly turns to walk from her last painful tear.

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