Looking back on that failed relationship
I think I see where
The most important decision
Was made.
Even though her couch
And her tears
Swallowed me whole for more
Than two hours straight,
The world outside kept on spinning.
Lovers were finding shady areas to lay.
Children were out playing in the
Millions of yards of the world.
Sad men were dying from dry throats
Or throats that had too much to drink.
The spinning would not
Stop for us.
She was the second woman
That I had heard cry that day.
Although her tears were
More panicked and in a way,
Sickly.
Scared for life without another.
The first sobs that had reached my ears
earlier
Were from a woman
Who also had to face a life
without another.
In fact
Life itself would face everything
Without him.
I heard both women cry
And I almost wish that I too had wept.
In the end
I stayed with the woman
Who’s tears hurt the worst.
That made
All
The difference.