"Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works."
- John N. Mitchell -
Fifty words of woe.
Is there anything sadder than goodbye?
"Goodbye" is @jayna's 50 word prompt this week.
Goodbye...
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The Impossible Dream
by Duncan Cary Palmer
Goodbye?
Not much good about it.
Common cause
and occasional emails
somehow bloomed
into deep, mutual feelings.
Correspondence:
Encrypted, torrid, raw,
vulnerable, vivid,
ecstatic,
poetic.
Both:
Responsible,
committed.
Situation:
Utterly hopeless.
Saved from
irredeemable folly
by naught but
thousands of miles.
Inevitable discovery
by an unsuspecting spouse.
Silence.
Pain.
Goodbye.
FIN
Where's the happy ending?
Perhaps they've been saved from years of endless, agonizing pining. Almost certainly from the collateral damage of destroyed families.
If there's to be a happy ending,
I can only guess that it must happen far, far outside the scope of this story... Perhaps somewhere, somewhen, after the ultimate resolution of all things.
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