Originally Posted by JayP

How very hard I've cried.

Squeezing back tears for the woman that you are now not.

***

They will "get you".

They will "let" you. ...

But only until they get close enough to you for it to affect them too. ...

The ones closest to you that you forced into submission,

finally willing to accept whatever desperate relationship with you that you would allow. ...

Originally Posted by Titanic

In Jeopardy. What is The ?

I met her - or did I really "meet" her?

I shared with her - but was it only an echo I heard back?

I loved her - but who was "she" really?

I married her - but what could "marriage" ever have meant to her?

I lived with her - but exactly when did the butterfly I "saw" mutate into a caterpillar?*

I experienced life with her - but what was true and real, not fraud or a figment?

We had dreams, hopes and plans with her - but could they really be "with" her?

We fought for her and our family - but "what" really for?

We accepted - but what?


* Thanks to Pelican and Trina Paulus!