The Blood & The Bones

Sometimes they do come back but it’s too soon.

After all that time spent hoping that they would. Begging the universe that they would miss you just as much as you did them. That the absence of you in their life would be too loud and they would need to make it right again

They show up just out of the blue.

At first you feel like you want to tell them all the things you couldn’t in the space that passed between the day they left and now

And you do. Pouring your heart out without pouring too much… Wondering what it means to have them one foot in again but knowing it’s not two.

And soon you realize that things feel different. That nothing has changed. That they won’t because they don’t want them to. Realizing all they have to give right now is hurt to anyone.. including you.

And you thank God you got a second chance to see.. to really see when something isn’t meant for you.