Let's Meet Where No-one Thought To Meet Before (by Simon Drew)
[The following travel itinerary has been kindly shared with us by Happy Cow's good friend Simon Drew. When he is not busy overlooking the obvious, Simon can be found undertouching the readily apparent, behindsmelling the quite clear, besidetasting the concealed and running the online groups English Stuff and H.A.T.S.T.A.N.D.(O.N.). If you have found That Place, why not show your appreciation by clicking on the 'Like' button at the bottom below. Enjoy!]
Let's meet in a place far from perfection
In gravel pits, ash trays and untended gardens
Growing wild with thorny bushes and naked blossoms which burn the night sky
Which the fabric of the dour sky, tear
Let's meet in fear and doubt and nervous anticipation
Far from sure shores and sunsets over an undulating ocean
Far from the salty air which disinfects and the warm sea breezes
In the desert, a place of no consequence, where no one thought to meet before
Let's meet despite the trembling of weeds
The danger of thorns to naked skin
The judgement of a million eyes watching
Let's meet despite forgetting each others' faces and our own
Being left somewhere absent mindedly in a waiting room waiting for our names to be called
Let's meet though we'll never find each other
Though in the darkness we'll never see a thing
Though our hands will grope the ground seeming purchase
Though we'll fall into ravines and be washed away by white waters that push us down to river beds
With rock daggers waiting to slice us like sashimi
Though our voices will catch in our throats and we'll forget all words
Though a thousand desires will pass as a dream
Though the memory of it will fade as old newspapers left to yellow in the street in the sun
Though our feet will protest against the rocky path, never walked
Let's meet in a disused parking lot between rotting metal husks
Let's meet where no one thought to meet before.
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