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A change of mind May 18, 2014

  

  she says she's change her mind, wants him back when she’s never taken anybody back in the past, she having to choose between who she is and what he wants her to be, resisting, needing to hold on to who she is, at the risk of his slipping away, and she chose, regretted it, and changed her mind, too later since he needs to keep the picket fence, two car garage and the one and a half kids statistics claims his life style requires.

This is not here kind of life and she knows it, and yet – this was so good  (whatever it was) that she’s willing to make an exception, reconsider his offer, only she might still not know what that offer is, how much she has to surrender if she agrees, an unconditional surrender to which she needs to submit herself when the alternative is always as unbearable, the silence of the night, the all too clinging bedsheets, the urgency of waking and wonder why fate fated her to be alone.

 


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