A lot of people seem to lose sight of themselves when they move in with someone else. Have you seen this happen to anyone you know?
Posts Tagged ‘loss’
I have seen you many times. We held eye contact as the elevator closed, you mouthed a word I could not read through the window of a bus, dared me to approach from behind a fortress of your friends. This is how a leaf flickers in a constant breeze, its flickering, also, cannot be disturbed. [...]
It seems awkward, or unexpected, or untoward to say how you feel, so you don’t. It seems like you have a friendship, a rapport, maybe a better chance to say it later, to lose. But things have a way; they conspire to lose you the things you are trying not to lose.
Have you ever made a commitment you thought you wanted, then been relieved when it became impossible to fulfill?
When the markets began to crash, I thought they’d bottom soon. I bet on a rebound that never came. My pulse raced at the financial news, the win so tangible, the loss so unthinkable. Now, they say that hope has strength, but I can tell you, it does not have effect. Every day, another one [...]
I have attached love notes to helium balloons, sent them into the sky. Folded into paper airplanes, they will find their way somewhere. I am a realist, and I know the messages will not carry the weight of their burst carriers. But where they land, it will at least look like they did. Too many [...]
Of course nothing lasts forever. But nothing lasts for very long. Have you ever gone somewhere, done something, known someone, being especially aware how soon it would blow away. Was it better that way?


