Friday Fantasy

BEWARE!!!!!!


She stood in line at the airport.

Waiting for them to make her
empty her pockets
take her shoes off
and
in anticipation of them
digging through her purse
and carry on luggage

which was simply a tote bag
with self help books,
geocaching pages,
and her camelback
hiking backpack.

She hates flying alone
sitting by total strangers
who are not
the hunk of a man on the airplane
(there is usually at least one)
but they are
the unruly teenager
spoiled by a non attentive parent
or a
fat person,
ok, not just fat,
but morbidly obese person

and if the flight is full...
it is even more miserable

She read as she waited for the plane
She was not looking forward to the trip
or the reason for the trip

Granted, she would see family
but her family is,

like everyone else's,

very
disfunctional.

Her mother nags her about moving back home.
She won't notice the tan
or the weight loss
or the gained strength

and when she gets her hair done
or her nails done,
her mom will fuss at her
for spending money...

granted, sometimes
it is rightfully so,
but right now,

given the current state of affairs

or lack thereof,

she needs something to feel good about.

She sits and reads and
realizes,

she has been thinking about
everything
but
what she is reading.

She boards the plane,
picks an aisle seat
with an obese teenager
in the window seat of that row.

It beats the alternatives
believe it or not.

She picks up the
SkyMall magazine
and starts skimming
she looks out the window of the plane

and she finds herself
once again
with her mind on a man

It is time to land and get off the plane
she stands up
picks up her bags
and is one of the first
to depart

She walks past the other gates
and is nearly to the security checkpoint
and there she sees

the smile she has missed

the eyes that look right through her

she smiles and then
the tears start to flow...

She had prayed and prayed he would be there
to pick her up,

but how did he know?

How did he know she was in this distant city,

so far from home?


She walked faster and faster,

they were staring at each other

so happy to see one another,

and yet no matter how fast she walked

she was not getting any closer to him...

She became frustrated
and he seemed to be as well

just then she felt someone touching her arm

and the

flight attendant

asked her for

any trash she might need to throw away
before the plane landed.


Beware?
Sometimes the best fantasies, well
they have nothing to do with sex, but
they have everything to do with

Affairs of the Heart