My stepdad's fantasy
Seconds after the headlights came on
Roadside gas station, early mornin nobody moved,not me not Tomás not even the man standing outside the truck,like the world was holding it's breath at the exact same time ,the headlights from the truck cut across the front of our care,pale and cold in the early morning dog,I could barely make out the man properly at first just the shape of him standing there beside the open drivers door.
He's tall,with a dark jacket on ,his hands empty and he was just ther watching us and that part scared me the most,not theessages,not even the house but this was someone real, someone who. Ould bleed,someone who could had been there long enough to wait for us my chest tig