Dan Bellm

“Here is the door where you
walked out on me, and the window where I watched you go;

what a relief that, after all, that time and place are gone
and I don't want them back, don't care to stay here
any longer, though I have never stopped talking to you
nor you to me, two misfits
on earth unable to share a roof but forever living
in the halves of the same soul.”
― Dan Bellm, One Hand on the Wheel

“I thought it was my job to give
him happiness. I studied his face, and saw that his eyes gave
off darkness, and saw that he knew I saw, and learned
to stand back from it and look away, wishing
light to appear, some sign, some relenting of dread”
― Dan Bellm, One Hand on the Wheel