I was reading a commentary from someone a few weeks ago that, like this poem, challenged the default assumption of "forever" for relationships--that if the relationship doesn't last forever, then it's somehow a failure. Relationships can also just end, their purpose fulfilled. We move into and out of relationships according to how well those relationships serve us, and us them.
"It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work."
I was reading a commentary from someone a few weeks ago that, like this poem, challenged the default assumption of "forever" for relationships--that if the relationship doesn't last forever, then it's somehow a failure. Relationships can also just end, their purpose fulfilled. We move into and out of relationships according to how well those relationships serve us, and us them.
Gorgeous writing. You captured it perfectly. Completely.
Lovely
Beautiful, Jack