Friday, December 9, 2016

phrase one

do you remember?

when we said hurtful things to each other and vowed never to see each other again? you remember the time you walked out on me? and the time i told you that your poor choices leave me with none but to never talk to you again? to be honest, both of us never really believed those things we said.

we knew we could say them because forgiveness was on the other side.

maybe what we didn't realise, is that vows, no matter how small or life-encompassing, can never be taken back. you vow to love, to protect and care for, in richness and in health, in sadness and anger, you vow never to leave the other behind.

and after all the promises we made and broke, the sad truth is, we were meant to be broken. we were meant to be together. we were meant to be sad together. so here's to all the poems our anger and sadness has ever inspired.

and now that we have nothing left, let us vow to savour the emptiness.