I could stare into your eyes as much as I can, or as much as you’d let me. I could inspect you with my eyes, see the beauty there that others see when they tell me. I can look at your smile that I’ve been told can light up a room, I’ve seen it in action, I was standing right by you. I can remember the way that your smile made me feel, remember that it meant “all was good here.” Your shoulders were big and broad and your arms, strong, though I told you it wouldn’t make me love you more just as long as you are you, do you recall? I told you all the time that when you fall, you can get back up if you give it your all. I could remember all the praise that I’ve seen you receive, all the accolades and things that look like trophies. And I could reminisce on the times when you’ve taken lead and lead the family or troops or whatever it be into doing and being things they were meant to be. A better them. A better you. A better me.
I remember the time at that formal dinner where you were a winner of sorts, you got an award for showing inner strength to those above you and in charge of you then. I saw the perfect you then. I remember him.
That man isn’t there anymore. It could be anxiety, depression or war; or stress of normal life and strife that seems to find you all day and night inside of your mind, created by things that I wish you could put behind you but you cant. I know it’s hard. I know your reality is harder than most. I know you have your demons, your skeletons your ghosts. And I know that you love me more than yourself and all ways will, I know the deal. I know the things you’ve told me are real.
But whatever it is inside you, it’s eating you alive. You’ve lost the will to live and lost the drive to thrive in the situation that we’re in. You don’t want to fight for what we have, need or deserve. You haven’t learned things that, by now, that you should have learned. Your attitude is affecting the children, your friends, family, me. Everyone around suffers while you’re suffering and I know that you try, love, trust me I do. But you let this beat you. At this rate, you’re through. And I won’t be there for that, its been years since we had our first chat about your fears of admitting you had a mental problem. And you’ve declined because your pride won’t let you admit or try to tell the truth to those that can help you. I’m sorry. I’m through. But I want you to always know, I truly loved you.
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