The Remnant

Some people come and go so quickly that you hardly remember they were there. They pass through your heart like a ghost leaving only a remnant of a feeling behind. If you didn’t have photographs of them, you wouldn’t even remember what they looked like. But for some reason these people haunt you.

They come into your life, open up your heart and then as quickly as they came, they leave. You have things left unsaid, feelings left unexplored, and so many things left to do with them. You thought there was a world of possibility opening up, but instead there was a part of the world that was being completely shut off to you. It wouldn't be so bad if you never knew that world existed, but now you do. 

All you have to remind you that anything happened at all is this remnant of a feeling. It’s tiny, not enough to hold on to, but too special to let go. You keep it tucked away in a safe place that nobody can see, but you always know it’s there. On certain days, your heart calls upon that remnant and remembers what possibility it held; then it remembers that all that possibility is gone. And for awhile your heart feels all the feelings for this person over and over again.

If only you could just throw the remnant away, then maybe the haunting would stop. But you just can’t.