Too Late To Love Me
"You knelt here once."
He was on both knees in the middle of the empty room, hands open on his thighs, the sun lying across his shoulders. Mira sat cross-legged in front of him, close enough to touch, and did not.
She didn't answer.
"I stood. That's what I remember most. I stood over you with the papers, and I said the cruelest thing I've ever said, and I said it from standing up. I'm not asking for anything. I'm not proposing. No ring in my pocket. Nothing but this. I'm kneeling because I told the biggest lie of my life from above you, and I want to take it back from below."