A flash & a chime

& then there he was...

Just like old times

& I smiled because

Travis was back again

just as he'd left...

Only now I was

no longer cold or bereft...

Now he's a sailor

& we are both free...

Now we become

what we're meant to be.

Or so say the ones who

believe in our fate...

Those that believe it was

already too late

to salvage our love

before it was born...

I don't believe it!

I won't conform

to the belief that we

couldn't be ever after...

We could have made it

& survived this disaster...

Maybe we still will

& be stronger for surviving?

Through all of our actions,

through all these distractions,

through all of the pain & all the attractions -

I will be striving for what could be mine -

The smile I smiled with Travis on line.

- For Travis -