Once again

 
PROMPT: “Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.” 

I stood over the cliff,
my feet, a step away from the edge.
Last few days flashed before my eyes.

The fight with my beloved,
the tears and his leaving home.
I saw myself in the room alone,
crying away with no one to console.

Was this the life I had dreamt of?
When did things change, the love disappear?
I had no one to go to, so I waited,
waited for him to come back.

The days passed and then weeks.
I became a mess and so did the home
until Mom came and took care of everything.

I was a picture framed in time.
No words escaped my mouth,
no movement ruffled my body.

I just sat there, still and numb
until one day, today, I realized
nothing was going to change.

My life was doomed.
I would better die
and so here I am.

I picked up my feet...
Something stopped me.
I had a vision.

I saw my mother crying over my dead body,
my beloved marrying another lady.
I rested my feet.

I was not going to die.
I would turn back and make things alright.

They say love is never lost.

I will wipe the dust off it,
I will make it shine.
I will live like I have never lived,
I will make him again, mine.

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