Accepting that a love is lost can is often more painful than the actual loss of love itself.

It can take years to accept the fact that the love you once had no longer exists. In moments, or in memory, you see flickers of it - all the emotions rush back in, like a tidal wave at your feet, throwing you off balance. In an instant, you feel alone, lost, a stranger in your own life. The emptiness, like a vacuum, pulling you into darkness.

Inevitably, a moment comes when you tire of the void, the shadows, the wasting away