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May 10, 2005

don't take this personally

This text message on my phone yesterday afternoon as I leave work: "I could walk and talk with you 4ever."

Unexpected, a surprise, and happiness as fragile as a soap bubble surrounds me in an instant--I don't breathe too deeply or think or make any sudden movements because soap bubbles are beautiful and iridescent and doomed--even a hard look could pop them--and I want stay in this in this one, just until the sharp edges in the world have their way, and pretend that its translucent walls will hold me up.

How is it that this feeling is so rare, so tentative, so frail? W.'s voice in my ear, "Because it doesn't have anything to do with you." I know it, but God, it's still so beautiful while it lasts.

Posted by JudyLa at 06:00 AM | Comments (0)