Sagittarius
History says, Don't hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme
Seamus Heaney
The apology that was never offered becomes funnier the longer you wait for it, in the way that all impossible things eventually reveal their comedy. You start to see the whole situation as a kind of performance where one person refuses to say the obvious thing while the other person pretends not to notice the refusal. What began as hurt turns into something closer to curiosity about how long this particular game can continue. The real revelation is not that the apology will never come, but that you have stopped needing it to arrive in order to move forward with what you know about the person who owes it.