
I drove six hours with grief on my chest and compassion in my hands ready to console the man whoād lost his mother. I brought empathy like breakfast: warm, steady, familiar. But when I pulled up, I didnāt find sorrow waiting at the door.
She was in the front yard, face buried in an engine, working like a man rebuilding something broken. And maybe she was ,just not the car.
Instead he was already under repair by someone elseās hands. The āScrambled Omeletā hadnāt changed; he just switched kitchens. Some men donāt fix their mistakes; they just trade the mess for a new mechanic.
When she saw me, her hands froze, her eyes darted like a thief caught in daylight. I asked for him, calm and clear, but he never came out. Not even a shadow in the doorway. The kind of silence that confesses more than words ever could.
She disappeared inside to fetch him, anxiety dripping from every step, but I already knew. The cowardice was louder than the engine sheād been tinkering with. I stood there staring at his keys on the ground , the same keys Iād once waited up for, worried over, opened doors with. For a second, I thought about taking them. About holding something that still belonged to him, since he couldnāt even hold himself accountable.
But I didnāt. I left them where they were just like he left the truth.
I walked away with something heavier than metal: closure. Because love without honesty is just noise , a car that never starts no matter how many times you turn the key.
I drove six hours to show up for him, but I left finally showing up for myself.
I never made it to the service. I couldnāt. My heart was too cracked, my spirit too bruised to stand beside a man who hid from both grief and guilt. I loved that woman truly. She deserved to be honored with peace, not pain. But instead of sitting in that chapel, I found myself driving home, mourning two losses at once: hers, and the version of him I kept hoping existed. Some heartbreaks donāt break you they free you from pretending.
Let him eat what heās made. Iām done serving second chances.
š Because at the end of the day, you canāt unscramble whatās already broken. So I did the only thing left to do Omelet him go.
Y.O.L.k. You Only Love Knowingly.








