Things We Never Said

by Nick Alexander

I would have stayed if I could.

‘No one really knows anyone. That’s amazing, isn’t it? We share everything, but we all have our secret gardens, too. We all have fantasies and fears and fetishes. We all have secrets about ourselves we don’t want to share.’

To spend your entire life with someone and still not know them is pretty strange.

‘Well, the dead make so few mistakes.’

When people die, we choose to forget the arguments. We wipe out the slights and the injustices. We turn our dead into saints and that clearly doesn’t make the grieving process any easier.

Take time to cry over the good things we had. Take time to shout at me for the things I never told you at the time. And when it’s done, put the box away and get on with your life.