A Good Night

We both agreed the bars were not for us.  
 
We turned down a street sheltered from  
the noise, the tour groups, the bad music  
into a maze of yellow, orange, and pink plastered walls  
haunting in night as vibrant in day,  
a long memory in the past-  
 
Our hands frozen  
Our mouths closed,  
 
Adobe relics passing in front of our eyes...  
 
 
 
and she said(blurted):  
 
"If only I had met you in another life"  
 
and we walked until the the last streetlamp  
had long ago burnt out  
 
and she blurted(said):  
 
"Wait with me for my taxi here"  
 
"I've heard its dangerous to walk alone here"  
"Someone was stabbed in the chest the other night;  
her heart was punctured"