A Mind Off-Grid, Nr.12 - A Trouble Of Moving On

        
He greeted me in an exaggerated sort of way        
I thought “What’s up?” on this otherwise ordinary day        
       
turned out his wife had left him for another man        
and he in shock explained it in terms of “I can        
       
see it’s sort of a case of trying to live free        
be honest with oneself on life’s journey and she        
       
is practising tapping into her deeper truth by        
letting her ‘yes’ be ‘yes’, her ‘no’ be ‘no’ and I        
       
was happily practising the same thing too -        
we were on the same page, had the same basic view        
       
seemed life was getting better, together we had soul        
heading in same direction, we were on a roll        
       
then suddenly she turned a bit funny and I knew        
something was up. I said “Honey, we’re here to discover who        
       
we really are, let’s talk it through, for surely life        
in all its wonder can’t be bad”. She said “I’m your wife        
       
but trouble is I love another more than you …”        
and I thought “shit, how can this be when seeking what is true?”        
       
But anyway, she left last week and flew to Timbucktoo        
with this other guy who’s some kind of new-age guru        
       
and I’ve got a feeling she’s being taken for a ride        
though knowing one can run from truth but really cannot hide        
       
the best I can do is feel the grief, then let it go        
and yunno, carry on with life, develop a new show …”        
       
His voice trailed off and we stood in silence awhile        
with our half-filled trolleys blocking the supermarket aisle        
       
when a gentle voice said “… excuse me, I can’t get by …”        
we swiftly moved to one side, looked each other in the eye        
       
and both agreed she was indeed beautiful, and that life goes on …        
he smiled, wiped a tear and said “yeah … time to move on”.