Moving On

It could be said that all of the different parties involved had indeed moved on simply because there was no other choice and yet she saw the scars left from the battle that neither side had really won. The innocents had suffered the most as is usually the case in any situation such as this. The early years following the tragedy had gone by without much to show for them at least in her life as she spent day after day in a vacuum numb with the pain that she did not know how to climb out of. Her fairy tale had turned into a nightmare created by a lifelong secret that had somehow found it's way out of the darkness and into the light of day. Knowledge that she had not been prepared for and therefore had challenged everything that she thought she knew about herself and her family. Nothing was real and everything that she valued had become a lie, the sense of betrayel that invaded her heart and mind clear down to where her soul lived would forever change her.

Life's Lessons

It was the source of her greatest sorrow, the emptyness that she carried with her like a second skin and yet she knew there had been no other way or so she had thought at the time. The question that remained was it her lesson to learn or those for whom she cause great pain and suffering? Why after all of these years did the memory come back to haunt her and what good could come from this knowledge if it was not her lesson to learn. To drag it out in the open would only open scars from wounds that were not visable and yet that is what she saw when she thought of her loved ones. The wounds of those closest to her would always be known to her even though they were far away in another place and time. "Time heals all wounds" is a lie made up by someone who wanted to suggest that by some miracle they had moved on and could delgate the past to something that happened many years ago as a way to excuse themselves.