does it get quieter, less visible?
does understanding it make it feel better, do the questions come faster and stronger and then there are no more questions as the closeness fades?

"that was the year... when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it." -meghan

will we talk about it enough that the words fly from our mouths and rejoin together so that they may disappear from our own selves? do we find ourselves less weighty once that gravity leaves us? do we find ourselves lighter, or emptier?