• Sits by a wall
    Face expressionless
    He stares into the void.
    Tired of the world
    Running in circles all day long

    She is across the city
    Crying her eyes out
    Drowning in tears
    She throws her computer
    Out the window
    Of her fancy house

    What is the point?
    He wonders
    Totally immersed in this state of mind
    What did I do?
    Wandering Blind
    through the world of thought
    of the quarrel of darkness and light

    Her parents walk into her room
    Yelling all sort of foul things
    She screams back at them:
    You don’t know who I am
    Who I want to be
    You never wanted me
    here did you?
    You don't love me.
    You don't love me
    She runs out of the room
    And out of the house.
    To sit in the garden
    Her tears run dry

    Left and Right he looks
    On a bus to Chicago
    All around him he sees crooks
    Everyone has the potential
    To be evil
    Is he depressed?
    He is
    and he accepts
    He does not want to try anymore.

    She runs down the street
    To her best friend’s house
    Check the door.
    Gone
    She walks the road
    With no hope
    Of finding that.

    He gets off at the Hotel he has to stay at
    His parents call
    Where’ve you been?
    He has no reply as he heads to the window
    He’s always been afraid of heights
    Jack! What are you doing!? His parents yell
    What am I doing? He asks himself
    He sits on the bed, mute.

    She continues to walk.
    And walk and walk.
    Until she can’t anymore
    She’s reached the end of the world
    And nobody’s there
    She doesn’t know how to get out
    It looks drab and angry
    Perfect, she decides

    The next day at school
    Jack decides to leave.
    He’s sick
    He’s feels tortured
    He’s been nowhere
    His whole life spent in a dreary little suburb of Chicago.
    And what has he accomplished?
    What.

    She is thirsty
    Started to die
    But in the distance she spots a small object
    A well?
    She heads up the hill
    Wanting
    Needing

    Jack takes his bike, and pedals
    Pedals all through the city
    And never stops
    He keeps going
    And Going
    And going
    away from this hell
    away from the world
    away from them
    away from himself

    She grabs some water and is about to drink
    As she touches the bucket to her lips
    She realizes how lonely she is
    She turns around and.
    Smack
    She is hit by a bike
    The two roll down the hill.
    She is angry but does not realize
    how happy she is
    Apologetic is he.

    Hey I’m Jack he says
    She smiles wryly. I’m Jill.
    They smile at each other
    as they make the long trip home.