This town

This Town is a song I passed on the radio one day after Cindy came back into my life. I heard enough of the song to go right back to it. As I listened closely to the lyrics, my heart melted because the song encapsulated so many of my thoughts about her. 

I mentioned the song to her, and she said she had thought of me every time she heard the song. I guess it was our song. The town in question doesn't matter. We grew up together there, but it could have been anywhere.

The truth is, I can't add much to the lyrics of this song. My thoughts are all there. When I saw that she had more than moved on from our fleeting stab at a relationship when we were freshmen in college, that she had two beautiful children and a handsome man in her life, my heart was glad for her. Secretly, it sank in me because someone else had more than made her happy. 

I sat, holding my tongue, wanting to do as the song says and tell her all the words I wanted to say the first time around. And then I did. The words came in a torrent like a cloudburst. All those years and all the space between us was like a thin sheet of paper, so easily rent it was. We clung to each other, showered each other with words, talked on the phone, talked about our lives freely, asking questions like there was no tomorrow. It was beautiful, and it felt right to have her back in my life, even though she was so far away. 

As I listen to this song now, so many months after I initially heard it, it still rings true. I don't know that it will ever cease to be true. Everything, my dear girl, comes back to you.