How To Lose (OctPoWriMo2014)-Day 18

We tend to think we know someone And then they go and surprise us But I'm also not stupid And I know about loss How to lose When it's already gone When it's slipping away So don't tell me I'm imagining things You say you want it back to the way we were But we both know it's not possible You did too much I did too little There's not enough to hold on to But you don't want to let go And last night I found someone Because for the past few months you have too And now you're sorry But I know about loss How to lose When it's already gone When it's slipping away And you're already through my fingers... I gained inspiration from page 127 of my first novel, A Tragic Heart. On this page my main character is going back to the life she thought she wanted only to realize that it's already lost and there's not much else she and her partner can do to salvage it. Sometimes it isn't worth it. Inst...