The Christmas Party
.
In the years since, she had fallen
into traps and been wrong about so
many things, including forgiveness.
But, when she saw him across the
room, standing behind padded shoulders,
between raised glasses, smiling with
people she didn’t know, laughing
at something she couldn’t hear;
she could only remember why they
had broken up and not why she
had fallen in love.
It wasn’t recalling the bad times
that bothered her - because in some
ways she blamed herself - it was
having to remember the good times,
that she couldn’t forgive.
