IDEAL

  
Apropos that one-true-love that didn’t last forever, give yourself credit for having, however fleetingly, posited an ideal. Only that; an ideal.

Ideals aren’t so much, more often they’re just hovering shades that make reality look trashy.

And to the one you shared it with, that illusion, say, tenderly, “I will always remember the person I thought you were.”

-- Bobbie Louise Hawkins, “One True Love”