Postmortem Indulgence
The heart and mind have diverged in two different directions.
One misses you terribly, the other knows that you are not equipped for empathy.
To unremember a person like an empty candy wrapper seems callous at best.
That might pass, but there is only this now. Was this then.
Mourn for the similarity and difference which once brought joy.
Return to the known, a place of safety, no growth.
The imaginary triumphs over the real.
A fiction? An effort. Twice in a decade.