The Feels

... and while she waited, Silence fell. This above all else, broke her heart...
She said, "I am happy, can't you see my smile?"
Then she replied, "But the moon is lonely without the sun."
He gently kissed her hand, and ran his thumb across the knuckles as he held it and said, "I don't know what to say." She looked at him then. "Not to worry," She replied as she softy touched his face with her fingertips, "I know what this is and what this is not. I've always known."
And just like that, she picked up the scattered pieces of hopes and dreams of what could have been and blew them in to the wind of what will never be.
In that moment, she finally said "Goodbye ...."