The Seven Year Slip

by Ashley Poston

Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes—they just leave.

Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye.

The sadness will last forever. It wasn’t a lie. There was sadness, and there was despair, and there was pain—but there was also laughter, and joy, and relief. There was never grief without love or love without grief,

Because the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we.