When you haven’t loved for a while you get cold. You get cynical and hardened. The sadness in you deepens to a level that could never be wholly reflected by your faraway gaze.
It’s like being an old lonely statue in the overgrown corner of a cemetery. There’s this quietness about everything. The screaming from within finds no answer from the outside world and so you stand there, fixed and trance-like, completely detached and lost. You start to crumble away, the damp creeps in and the only thing you can do to stop the increasing pain is numb yourself to it.
Pretend that it’s all going fine, try not to think about when things were better, that only makes things worse. You stop asking ‘how long will this last?’ because the answer never comes.
“better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”
It sounds nice in theory doesn’t it?