In retrospect,
things are always clearer.
The end was not so much the end as it was
resolution.
The last few days were mostly unnecessary
at best,
penultimate.
Time gives us a different view on how things fell apart
how conversations went from easy to hard to impossible
Past tense allowing a view previously hidden.
Now.
Three years later some,
we can see the napalm we thought were fireflies;
the avalanche we mistook for a snowball.