Revisited

My friend Joe took this photo on a camera older than most others.

Relationships are just places people emotionally arrive at and situate themselves amongst. Some kind of silent agreement regarding positions and titles. When time becomes a factor, as in it has gone by and you haven’t called them like you said you would. (Like you promised). A chasm forms. Someone, the one who forgot to call, ignores it. The person who then is receiving less than zero phone calls notices, but stubbornly never returns the promise.

There in that chasm forms a position shift, further away. Time, the constant, keeps going. And then months later each half of the relationship equation hug each other for the first time. The feelings of sadness, longing, and happiness boil over although the only thing you can pronounce properly in that moment it is, 

“I missed you so much.”

It is delivered while you are clinging tightly to the person and not looking them in the eye. Instead, looking at whatever their back is facing. The hug and the blanket statement absolve any party from apology or admission to the crime worthy of solitary communication.