U can grieve and still live life. U can miss loving someone and love others. You can hold onto the good moments and simultaneously the bad moments. You can take the learning from a person you let go off and use it for the better. You can love someone and they may not be the right person. You can wish someone the best and love them from a distance. You can think fondly of someone and never talk to them again.. mysteries of the world…
As my theater professor said, “Smart people can hold two opposing ideas in their heads at once.”
“How many eternities have sent me to you in dreams?”
— Loueva Smith, from “Nothing I Haven’t Done for Love,” Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials, ed. Sarah Cortez (Texas Review Press, 2016)
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