Dog Day Afternoon

It was possibly the longest afternoon I have had in a while. We sat together sharing space on the couch of the front porch. Together we sulked in our complacent hush. Staring of into the warm light of this spring filled farm all we could do was bicker. Silence was our complaint. The afternoon was perfect like the several before it however we sat on that couch with only the breeze to speak. I would mutter and she would glance, but we dared not make a sound. Twice we shifted and once again, if only it was different. Just one day before we were moving through time and sharing with one another. But today we were stuck on that couch. That damn couch. If only we could move together. If only we both knew what the other was thinking. In a way we did. We both knew that there was nothing that could be done. Circumstances be what they may but they put us then and there. There being that damn couch and then being the longest afternoon I had seen in what was now becoming forever. I wish I could rewind. I wish I could change what happened. For her. For me. But I cant and together we sat. We sulk, we sit, we contemplate what could have been...