Marks

You can spend a long time just thinking about the way you hope things would end up. You can lose days and weeks, develop anxieties that will tear your world apart. Hope can destroy, hope can build. Anything good can turn sour. I should have listened when my mother tried to teach me these things. So many lives would have been saved, so many freedoms would have been lost. The right thing never comes easy. The wrong thing never leaves your heart. I should have noticed the war in his heart. He should have noticed the fire in mine. Our mistakes - they burned down kingdoms and murdered sons. We didn’t have the luxury of hope. Now no one does.