A Tribute to Her

Here’s to missed chances, those quick and inadvertent glances that always seem to happen just as the other is looking your way — and to silence and mutual understanding, to knowing everything but daring not to acknowledge a single word of truth to the other. Here’s to lost love, the things that could have been, the memories you and she will likely never share and the sweet nothings that you’re left to exhale in private sighs. If only, huh? Matters of the heart are never simple, and they’re rarely fair or just. Just to know what could have been, to defy anticipation and to pull her close to me and kiss her tenderly … just once, just then she’d see how much we could have been. Here’s to you, H.