The Chains of Others

[DirectorBright]

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I never thought I could.
Decades passed.
Time moved on without me.

Eventually, we had to face it... but she understood.
She is tired. There was no shame in that.
It still hurts. I still wish it wasn't so.

Yet it is. And it is what had to happen.

I won't leave her to be alone, in her last decades. I never could.
I still love her, and she still loves me.
But she is ready to go.
And I still remain.

I'm going to remain for a very long time.

In some fairytale ending, I would have gone to be with her until the end of my days.
I would have retired by her side, and with our children, and that would have been the end of my story.
But bitterly, I find I am still not ready.

It is not what was to be.
But it was beautiful, and bittersweet.
It will hurt, but in time, it will heal, and I will look back and smile

My story ended a long time ago.
It's time for a new one.

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