They carved one heart in their yard tree, long ago. Last night she wept beside the marking, showing what was and what won’t be. She tried to be happy that she lived with such love but that was her head happy.
Her heart is torn. Permanence is fantasy. Love is a delicious seducer of forever. She didn’t mind being in fantasy, isn’t that a resting escape, a tolerance, a hope, although false?
Her plan, she doesn’t have one, but to sit by the tree, lay out the plaid blanket and have an imaginary conversation, for as long as she needs.
She believes her tears will drop into the roots of this tree and grow something deep down in the unseen world. She rests, curled in, weeping, chilled, and warmed by the ground.
Gone is the hand in hand. Her hope is, beauty will rise from the once felt light within. Just not today.
Heart Ache, may she collapse and lift with her own rhythm.
Natalie
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