Dear T,
Tonight I don't want you, I don't want previous T and I don't want some 'other'. I want my husband. He's out there, missing me too I know. He loves me as best as he's able I suppose...
I'm worth more than the best he's able. The best he's able to do is love what I can do for him. And he hates me because he loves me, and maybe hates me even more because I love him.
I want a phantom, a man who never existed. The real person is a broken child who refuses to grow up, hiding in a man-sized shell raging at the world and hating it for caring.
I'm heartbroken for the man he'll never be.
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'...
At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
...'
Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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