GATE 12 C

Kennedy airport

2:30 a.m.

Waiting at gate 12 C

Roses in his hands

Every plane has landed

Passengers all gone

But he waits on...

Employees, they stare

He's been here before

Returns to the same gate

This year it makes four

They whisper his story

Tears create a blur

As he waits on...

He waits for her

~~~*Chorus*~~~

While she lies in a graveyard

He stands at a gate

The war, it dared to claim her

And the broken man who waits

Every year the circled date

Blinds him that she is gone

He occupies the empty gate

And he waits on...

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Kennedy airport

9:30 a.m.

People rush to gate C

And have to push past him

Finally he gives up

Mind starting to clear

Looks around him numbly

She's not here

~~~*Lyrical Bridge*~~~

She died fighting terror

And he battles it each day

Can't conceive the truth to be

The war ripped her away

He can't function anymore

Lord, he barely breathes

His eyes focus through the pain

On gate 12 C

~~*~~

~~~*Chorus*~~~

While she lies in a graveyard

He stands at a gate

The war, it dared to claim her

And the broken man who waits

Every year the circled date

Blinds him that she is gone

He occupies the empty gate

And he waits on...

~~*~~

Teresa Lynn Johnson

Wrdspnr@aol.com

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