Changes

There are periods in your life where you start to let something go – a friendship, a relationship, a vivid memory – something that you’ve clutched for so long because you didn’t know how life could go on without it. And then the world changes and distracts you, a moment here, a few minutes there, until this intangible idol gets set down for a minute while you take care of something, then looked after once or twice a day, and so forth, until you realize that its leaving you forever, slowly fading from your grasp, no matter how beautiful the thing, all you can do is watch it disappear. All you can do is shed a final tear and forget.