The Fact of Moving On

  The Fact of Moving On

  I think that was the thing that terrified her the most.

She loved him hopelessly and yet, she knew that she couldn’t stay with him forever.

Not in the way that he meant it.

And she knew as well as anyone how easy it was to forget someone.

No one meant to, of course, but time moves on and you have to move on with it.

She knew that he would, in turn do the same

And that one day, maybe not so far from now as she hoped "

One day, he wouldn’t even think to mention her name.

She would be a forgotten face in photographs

And hers would become a room that he never entered any more "

That he barely even gave a second glance too when he passed.

  And equally she knew that if it wasn’t death that separated them,

But some other force of the universe,

Then she too would move on.

She wouldn’t want to,

Would put up one hell of a fight,

But those things were inevitable.

She would have no choice because what kind of a life was one half lived?

And while she was sure that she would always love him;

  One day he would simply be a name that she said with slight longing

When telling her children the stories of her adventures,

A name that her husband would ban in the house

Because of the way she said it like a prayer,

Or the way her head snapped around when ever anyone else said it

As if she still,

After all of that time

Was expecting him to show up.

That was what terrified her.

It wasn’t the actual act of dying or leaving him "

It was being forgotten by him and maybe even forgetting him in turn.

 

Author's Note

For those who experience great love, but do not get to keep it

Reviews

[Farhan Shaikh]

I enjoyed this one, besides it seems like an description, you should write it in the poem format, i think you what i mean, although the meaning and the moral is important, but you must try to write it in the format, and it has a very good meaning, for those whose love remains incomplete, i like this one truly.