Weepie

I lay motionless in bed

I thought of you and where you'd gone

On that cold April day, what did the firefighters discuss after they brought that young life into the world. Did they ponder the fact she might one day grow to fill someone's heart with joy?

I wonder if Orville Wright turned to his brother Wilbur after their first flight and said "You know, someday this technology will bring a young man and young woman together."

Did two parents, driving their family across the country to start a new life, imagine how it might effect their son? That someday coming home might cause him a new kind of pain?

When I took my first steps, did it cross my mind that I was taking one step closer to finding her?

And the world spins madly on