If They Stood There in the Rain

You ask yourself this question:

If that person - that person that drove away with your heart smeared on their front bumper - if that person showed up tonight on your doorstep in the pouring rain, weeping, and begged for you back -

would you take them?

Would you suddenly forget about every hideously cruel thing they did to you and fold them back into your arms and hungrily crush their lips to yours and fall back into that cherished rhythm, familiar and safe? Would all the new attractions and interests become obsolete the very second that they said 'I was wrong'. Are you truly over them or are you just moving on because it hurts too much to be left in the dust?

Or would the desire to have them back end the moment they decided they did want to come home? Or is it that you are further along than you think and, even if they did weep on your doorstep in the rain, giving you your forever, going back just wouldn't feel right?

And if you did take them back, given that they showed up on your doorstep in the pouring rain, could you, would you ever totally trust them again? Knowing how easily they walked away once, would you not watch them forever more for fear that if you looked away for a second they'd be gone?

You ask yourself this question because

before you wrap yourself in someone new you need to know what you would do if that person -

the one who can suck the breath from your body by simply sitting two feet away -

if that person showed up on your doorstep in the pouring rain, weeping,

finally clear and finally ready.