Untaken Chance

. Shrugging it off, believing she eventually would, he passed up on a chance to be truly understood. Meantime, fond feelings wither away, grow stale and old like unfinished dish, abandoned, still out there, now cold. Twin half-empty wine glasses stand sad on the table; and in due time, neither he nor she would be able to recall what saw them through the storm and through the frost, the love they both let loose, let go, and forever lost ! .