I stayed behind when he left for work because his mother captured me. I watered her plants today, the ones that sit on the window sill behind the blinds. Even with their half green half crusty leaves she's proud of them, feels they compliment her abilities. She kept saying "I've been growing those since they were this big,". I think the surgery's going to kick start her forward.

"Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past; See, I am doing a new thing."

You asked me if I had any memories of our past together, any inkling of all the things you used to be for me. There is no kind way to tell you that the past makes no difference to me now. I cannot live in wisps of memories tied to strings and hung on wires down the halls of our dilapidated home. You were right when you charged me with living only in the present and the future while I stared with blank eyes, baffled that you didn't see the beauty of such a thing.

-A.H.