I’ve done a lot in exchange for getting you back.

You wouldn’t know because you were always on the other side of the world, other side of the bed, other side of where I always seemed to be…

I’ve made deals with my heart, other women, and other places. I thought that if I came back more healed, more emotionally skilled, and more cultured, the distance would’ve made sense.

Somehow, the deals offered truth. You wanted to be there and I wanted to be far from you. We had to see what growth could do.