Born Today?

The apology that was never offered sits differently in your mind now than it did when the thing first happened. What started as a sharp absence has become something else over time, a question about what you were actually waiting to hear and why you needed to hear it from that particular person. The gap where the words should have been has taught you something about the difference between what someone owes you and what you need to keep moving. You have been carrying both the hurt and the hope that the hurt might be acknowledged, but only one of those weights belongs to you. The year ahead asks whether you are ready to set down the hope and keep what you learned from the carrying. Some forms of closure you give to your own hands.