You weren’t a burden. Ever. To anyone. Why did you think that? Why? And why didn’t I listen?
What now? I can’t really say what now. There’s the old cliche about taking it day by day, but how can I do that? How is that going to help me? Or you?
It’s real. You knew it. I wouldn’t hear it. Now there’s silence. So much silence.
It’s much easier to listen in silence, isn’t it? I’ll keep telling myself that. Maybe that will help.