We can tell the story any way we like:
add details,
remove details,
embellish, embolden,
build anticipation or slather on despair.
Confuse affection with love and love with affection,
claim no heart
and a heart big enough for them all.
We are writers,
we tell what we will,
the beginning and end may always be the same
but the middle is ours
to divine.