stumbles on broken sidewalk heart pacer kicks in unable to rise moment of hope sees young family they stare away walk around her on the street good parents teaching child not to speak to strangers bruised struggles to find her new iphone tells husband morning walk has gone awry
how well
do you
need to know
a soul
to
care
do you
need to be
on
a first-name basis
or
have shared
some common
moment of
pain
or
epiphany
or
is
your
faith
enough
for almost an entire second the soft underside of her original emotions of caring and empathy were exposed in her eyes before the hard defensive shell realigned her spine stiffening her posture past pain of unhealed wounds tho the years since were many so she continued to measure his vitals detached from this moment evaluating a car mechanic in latex gloves transcribing notes onto a computer whose screen reflected more emotion than she
