21. Edinburgh Beckons

It was raining, we didn't feel like talking,
instead I watched the rain drops dance down the windscreen,
my thoughts fixed on the journey home without you.

The wave goodbye on that first school day seems so easy now,
routines steered the years that I took for granted,
each one slipped through my fingers, carelessly.

Back then, this present moment stretched far off into the future
belonging to another time, the space between then and now
still to be filled with the thousand snapshots of laughter and tears.

Crossing the bridge, the lights of Edinburgh beckoned,
you smiled and I sensed the growing distance widen,
you moving forward, me returning home.