Cornered Lashes

Isn't it strange how memories seem to sneak up on the corners of your eyes at the oddest of times? How they appear to be random, though in the back of our minds we know that something has triggered them. How we wonder what that trigger could have been. At times it is blaringly obvious, but at other times we remain guessing and curious to the point of mental strain.
Moving through my book I spot an old slip of paper, wrinkled and folded, though still timeless. A memory, read again, brought anew.

An elderly couple had just stepped through the barrier of the front doors of the store. A man approaches the counter. A man with the look of a certain degree of scruffiness; somewhat a rough-around-the-edges type. His face was clean-shaven...yeasterday. His hair, under his hat, shot out over his ears and across his neck; just long enough to tickle the ends against the collar of his shirt. His ears were peirced, twice each, and both were gauged to what might have been a size 4 and sported some wooden toggle-like knobs. He had a charming disposition, something in the way he watched theings around him, like through a large window. As if he could see everything, but he wasn't really there, he was just on the edge of the scene. He watches the elderly couple leave and a sigh escapes him. A mutter, "amazing." A quiet pause, soft, like butterfly wings.
"Excuse me, but what is 'amazing'?"
His eyes shine softly as he raises his face to mine, he smiles at me with a kind smile, his reply was honest.
"It's amazing when two people who have been together so long can still wake up every morning and smile at each other."
I smile as I give him his change.
"You have a nice day." He says.
"You, too." says I.

I still have this small sheet of paper. It sits beside me now as I copied it onto here. It's mere simplicity makes me smile. I love that the moment in which it happened was such a simple and innocent piece of time.


-Daniel by Bat For Lashes-
Daniel when I first saw you
I knew that you had
A flame in your heart
And under under our blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We’ll never be apart
And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed
And in the golden blue
Cryin’ took me to the darkest place
And you have set fire to my heart
When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s worst ?
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
Daniel
I dream of home
But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our love the tears crept
Just catch in the eye of the storm
And as my heart ran round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again
When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s worst, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home
When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s worst, Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart, Daniel
I dream of home