Monday, June 11, 2007
{ 10:36 AM }
She crawled into bed and stared at him, the man she had loved for so long, sleeping soundly like a baby. She brushed her fingers through his hair, releasing molecules of his shampoo scent. She sat up straight in bed, and after a long mental rewind, played back the hours between 12am and 7am the night before.
The conversations they had, the brutality they threw at each other, in order they played in her mind. It took a toll on her, in a lack of sufficient sleep way.
She snapped back to reality, to now. She looked at him again, his back faced towards her and saw so much, their past, present and future. She stopped. Her mind needed a break, no more thinking.
She lay down beside him, that man, and snuggled up beside him. There's nothing now, the air has been cleared. The only remembrance of pain left from the night before, her swollen cried out eyes and his unclenched fist.