BEHIND IN TIME

you were 5 hours
behind in time
when the car hit you

we shared the same planet
but you were always elsewhere
'us' held together only by long distance

you were 5 hours
behind in time
and over 3,000 miles away

your watch face crackeD
stopped at the exact time
like a close up in a movie

an obese woman yelling
"***! ***! ***!"
like a siren

you were 5 hours
behind in time
when I had unknowingly lost you

a doctor who was  passing
muttering to himself
"She's gone...nothing I can do!"

time bled out of you
like a red stain
that seemed unreal

cheap false blood
in a low cost film
going straight to video


you were 5 hours
behind in time
and late for an appointment

the squeal of brakes
the last thing you
ever heard

thinking "God these shoes
are killing me but
they looked so good!"

you were 5 hours
behind in time
many many miles away