The Face of the Earth

As kisses go
 It wasn't anything out of the ordinary
 The alkaline lips
 Her fingers hooked around my belt
 She had to go
 She took a step back in and then she started to smile
 I heard a funny sound
 Then, everything seemed to shift, yeah
 A crazy wail
 The funny shudder of a bad magnetic event
 A ghost ran through us
 Moving like a shadow of a cloud
 And I wasn't sure
 I thought that something happened, but I didn't know what
 The moment seemed to fade
 And I turned my eyes back to her
 And that's when I saw
 I freeze the look of pre-alert and study it still
 Her smile starts to loosen, her pupils yawn wide
 And then she's blown
 From the face of the Earth
 There wasn't any wind, no noise, no nothing
 Just a body jerked skyward
 Limbs flailing like an unloved marionette
 At impossible speed
 Receding away like a faraway dot
 I can see her still, scream for help but no one answered,
 She was turning end on end, looming like a long-lost astronaut
 I felt the summer air reclaim me
 The chirp of a bird, the whisper of leaves
 And I was frozen
 To the face of the Earth
 I never really knew the way she lived her life
 I tried a couple numbers, but they never called back
 I didn't know her family or friends at all
 With no one to call, and summer turning to fall
 I gave up
 It's been a couple years and I guess I'm fine about it
 It's not like we were married, it was three or four months
 And nothing's really different
 Though it seems like I've spent my life in planes
 Which is kind of strange, but I don't know