MIRAGE

I fell in love and married a man who doesn't exist.

Who never existed.

For a year now I have been in mourning.

But how do you mourn a lie?

There was no funeral, no easy release from marriage vows.

For truth, not death did us part.

And memories that should have been cherished, are instead just tarnished.

The man I loved was a myth, a phantom.

I followed his mirage ten years into a desert.

...

Like water evaporated, all illusions are now gone.

I fell in love and married a man who doesn't exist.

Who never existed.