You've been all the way to broken
lost your sense of where to go
His head bows beneath the weight of her honesty, and he knows it's wrong of him to envy her when she has lost so much as well. He struggles to swallow down the bitter jealousy all the same, because there should be no competition between their pain. There's nothing he can say, because it's true. It's unfair. But what can truly be done about it? There's nothing he can do to change this fate, and that's why the permanence of it all is destroying him. He falls into her embrace like man into his grave, clinging to those last shreds of sunlight before the earth swallows him whole.
Just as it had been from the day they met, her smile is what keeps him standing. Perhaps her reticence is what makes each one so valuable, but he clings to her words and her body alike as she says everything he needed to hear. Everything Delphia hadn't said, the allowance of his own grief. The potential that he may never heal at all. "There are fewer fish in the sea here than I'm used to," he tries to joke, instinctive more than anything as the heart is clearly missing from it. But it's true - part of him wonders if he'll ever find someone who understands. If he even wants someone to.
Just as it had been from the day they met, her smile is what keeps him standing. Perhaps her reticence is what makes each one so valuable, but he clings to her words and her body alike as she says everything he needed to hear. Everything Delphia hadn't said, the allowance of his own grief. The potential that he may never heal at all. "There are fewer fish in the sea here than I'm used to," he tries to joke, instinctive more than anything as the heart is clearly missing from it. But it's true - part of him wonders if he'll ever find someone who understands. If he even wants someone to.
remember, pain is just an anchor
that you never had control of
HARPER
