Before We Were Strangers

After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?
M

Once there was a you and me
We were lovers
We were friends
Before life changed
Before we were strangers
Do you still think of me?

I was done crying and I was done apologizing.

“I was more heartbroken than angry.”

My timing was perfect, if not fifteen years too late.

I had been closed off for a long time, and I hadn’t allowed myself to imagine the future because I was still stuck in the past.

I’ll see you, Grace.”
We let go of each other and stepped apart. “I’ll see you later, Matt.”

I wanted to ask him to stay, but how could I be so selfish? If I asked him, would he love me less, if he even loved me at all? I couldn’t take his dream away to make mine better

It was never enough when I knew he was leaving the next day.

Ask me to go with you. Tell me you’ll stay. Tell me you’ll marry me. For real this time.