They Had Nothing Left To Say To Each Other

Have you checked out the writing prompts online? One of them caught my attention…. “They had nothing to say to each other.” So, with that in mind:

They had nothing to say to each other. They had everything to say to each other. The thoughts that needed to be spoken hung in the air, as if the air itself would soon force them to speak or remove it’s oxygen from them. Where to begin though, if you couldn’t begin to speak?

They had been friends for years, and then everything changed and life split them apart. Words were reduced to a few stilted conversations here and there. Slowly, the discussions, at first long-winded about life and family became shorter and shorter, more sporadic in their arrival. But, now the chance to speak, it was gone. Too much separated them and the casual comfort that once existed was now gone.

Staring through the wooden slats on the deck railing, he looked into the brown eyes of his friend. A space that they could not breach separated them, and now they had nothing to say. The good-byes had been said. The wooden slats braced his head as he leaned forward one more time. The moving van had come, the house had been packed up, and it was time to get into the van to drive to his new home.

One more glance back at his friend, the black lab turned and trotted up to his person, tail wagging and ready to approach his new adventure. His people were taking him for a ride! Good-bye to his friend Rusty, the chocolate lab next door, sat on his deck and watched his friend leave. Maybe a new neighbor dog would come that he could be friends with. No, there was nothing left to say.