Momentary

xviii. him

xviii. him

he realized that when she said:

she couldn't do it

and he couldn't either

so they both fell back

together

and it made him realize that

a stranger isn't always a stranger

and a road

isn't always a road

and a place isn't always

just a place

and a home

wasn't always home

so when he turned to leave her

she turned around, too

and neither one of them

looked back

because they couldn't afford to

so they both

kept going

straight

down the road

from which they came

because in that moment together,

while they stood up on that bridge

they realized that they were bigger

than anything life threw at them