The people who have taught you how to stand and held your hands between theirs
The people you have physically watched age
The people who have fed you and encouraged you to get education and have even paid part of your tuition can make mistakes
Even they can
Overdress for a woman who is not their wife
And deliberately plan to leave all of it behind
Even they can fantasize about a life that is not their own
And once this plan is found out
Once everything falls apart
And you are still left with three children
And the woman you almost betrayed
You can spend the next 41 years of marriage suffering under her wrath
Rubbing her ankles and fetching her medication and standing next to her hospital bed as she tries to die
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Bitterness can kill you too
If you cannot let it free
It can sit quietly destroying you inside your ribcage as you feed it
Slowly it can climb into your bones
And turn your eyes
And build fluid around your heart
They can call it heart failure
Everyone else can just think you are stubborn and quietly they say it under your breath "she's a stubborn old bird" as you toss your medication across the room and threaten the nurse if she tries again
Nobody knows you have
Lived and breathed 41 years with a man who once tried to walk out
Everyone thinks you stopped sleeping with him all these years ago because of the snoring
But really it was because of her.
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There are two sides to every story.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to say a lil sumthin! Im so grateful that you even read my words and I hope they inspire and draw you closer to Jesus!