costs.

Reconciliation, tenuous peace,
Rented tenderness, loaned on a lease.
Tentative forays, familarity lost,
Possession parted, at too great a cost.

Chillingly solemn, shockingly strange,
Two that was one, now rifted by change.
Heartbreaking sorrow, mourning of loss,
Veneered under smiles, hidden by gloss.

Reparations, painfully slow,
arduous preparations, a long ceaseless flow.
Promises tendered, assurances wrought
Forgiveness in installments, earned and not bought.