It could happen in a second.
Love.
But, everyone knows that… Predictable.
It’s the falling out of love that happens just as fast.
The single epiphanic moment when you know it’s broken, forever. The Ol’
Mare has had a few in her time time – moments that stand proud in my often
foggy memory. After forty years of flexing the Dreamer muscles in my brain, I
sometimes can’t tell what was real, and what I’d imagined. Did I really go
there? Do that? Was that really me, or something I dreamt up?
But those moments, like lighthouses in the storm, will forever remind me
when and why those tempestuous loves ended. So, that was why. Ah, I remember now.
Don’t let nostalgia cloud your judgement, girl. Stay on course. Head steadily toward
the lighthouse.
There was the one who sobbed into his pillow, little girl noises from The
Tough Guy, begging me not to end it. Another, that night at the club when his
best friend, pupils pulsing, slurred out the name of The Other Girl. And another still, his
broke ass standing on my veranda, smoking my cigarettes, drinking my scotch
telling me how “marriage is a big word” – the same word he’d used to win me
back just days before.
Guess he didn’t know there’d be no more “winning back” after the second I
finally clicked. None of them did. The Second broke it.
Love. Trust. Loyalty… all gone in just one little second.
1 comment:
Sjoe… Nice one gurl.
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