Rushing Home

a young teenage girl leaves high school netball practice ephemeral face flushed with exercised energy departing into oncoming dust encroaching early winter night cold chill already has a bite light fading distance reduced sight shadows merge embrace in darkness years passing see her briefly in moments only in passing as she waits in winter twilight cold at the high school gate years stretch now from shadowed past to imminent future possibilities unknown to realities realized Copyright © Terence George Craddock http: //www.poemhunter.com/terence-george-craddock/