Under the moon, near the groves, grows the summer's bitter fruit, plumping for harvest.
We are bound to them, thirsty for their tartness.
I know nothing of farming these lands or caring for elderly children, lost inside their own minds. I am only an observer in these fields, destined to carry my share home.
When I left my wife I felt the angst, but underneath it was the overwhelming relief that I didn't have to pretend anymore that two halves could ever equal one.
I watch the bitter fields, under this moon, only an observer, adding up these fruits, counting these bushels, knowing that we've all our own fields to tend, serfs that we are.