C23 TWENTY THREE

Never to Return

ROSE

Ready to go but never to return.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Dear Diary,

He used the word that exploded my world into a million shiny threads of color and light. But how can he love a woman he doesn't really know?

We think we see the truth of life, but the real truth slithers under layers of foliage, unseen and unknown