When you don't get closure.
When they drop off the face of the earth or suddenly spring a new significant other on social media,
What would you do?
It is hard to reconcile what is with what could have been.
No matter how jaded and cynical and bitter and burned we might claim to be, we're optimists.
We like to believe in love and happily ever after, and we like to believe that something is out there waiting for us.
That is why we hold onto the could have beens,and all the future we painted in our head but were never brave enough to admit.
what you did
what you didn't do
what you could have done
what was wrong with you
what was right with you
you never get these answer
so you wind up speculating.
wondering.
it's all the unsaid and implieds.
then there's the fact that nothing ever followed through.
an ex-something.
an ex-maybe.
an ex-almost.
sometimes you risk and lose.
why do we keep risking, then?
well, i guess in the off-chance that just maybe,
this might be the time we win.
might be.you were characters from a foreclosed past, symbols from former and forgone live.
now you are part of the permanent present.
the unfinished business.
the unresolved problem.
now you are part of the permanent present.
sometimes you just need to know that you've tried.and that was all you could have been expected to do.
