I wish it were you
Eventually, she gave in—put the book over her face, curled up on the couch, and drifted off to the rhythmic clatter of the tracks.
Outside the window, the world changed. But she missed it all.
With no one to share the view, a deep loneliness settled in.
When she woke again, it was night. Outside the window, dark mountains stretched into the distance.
She saw her own reflection in the glass and spaced out.
Traveling alone, far from home, it really does hit different. A lonely kind of poetry.
She whispered to herself: A hundred years ago, you weren’t you, I wasn’t me. A hundred years later, there is no you, and no me.
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