I wrote this sometime in 2001

UNKNOWN DATE

Do people “fall out” of love?

If so, if it’s possible…
to fall out of love,

then is it possible
that it happens
over nothing more
than a lack of communication?

A simple misunderstanding…
which leads to another,
and another, and another,

even a great many
misunderstandings

people fall out of love
over this?

If so, then were they
ever really in love
to begin with?

This poem is followed in my journal with the following thought:

01/21/2002
Some of the most beautiful things in the universe are there only because of the collisions which preceded them.