never chosen

“Sometimes the best memories are sad, because you know they will never happen again.”

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

“I missed you in a small way, tiny enough to fold up and put in my pocket, and carry that loneliness with me everywhere I went. I’d forget all about you, until my hand accidentally brushed against that slip of memory.”

“I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me. Always.”

“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

“How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?”

“I love you like a child looking at the stars without being able to touch them.”