Before you said goodbye

By Dan Terry

Before you said goodbye

In that moment before you said goodbye, time slowed to a tick, each heartbeat pounding like a metal drum inside my chest.

The air thick with woozy anticipation, and as you turn to leave, the waft of burning rubber pierces the air, a sharp, acrid reminder of the fact that I will never ever see you again.

Screeching tyres slam into my ears, already feeling the space around your absence, a silent void lingering in the air. The moment hangs, suspended in time, before reality rushes back into me with the roar of your engine hurtling towards the open road.

Lonely Being
Poetry & prose

Lonely Being

By Dan Terry

In the quiet silence, she sheltered, a solitary figure in a world devoid of sight and sound. Her careful fingertips brushed against the rough and undulating bark of the cedar tree, sensing the stories etched into...
Chasing Clouds
Poetry & prose

Chasing Clouds

By Dan Terry

To the endless expanseWe chase cloudsCaptivated by their dance Shifting shapes and huesThey tease our graspAlways out of reach An ethereal journeyTo soar beyond the horizonTo transcend the vastness of space To break freeThese earthly boundsTo...