The older you get
The easier it is for you to walk away from relationships
Before they climax in full gore.
But sometimes, ever so seldom,
You pause.
Sometimes you find a reason good enough
To revert to the sado-masochistic altruism of your puppydog teenage years.
Staying power. The demonstration of mock-adulthood sensibility.
It's about not walking out at the first hint of trouble. It's about working things out.
Yea whatever.