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 ...