once before...

Commitment. Committed. To commit. How things have changed from what I remembered. The promises and hope that once protected have slipped. The promises and hope that once cherished have dissipated. What's left is an unspoken truce only to be understood through the sympathetic eyes. Barriers that once absent are now longer and deeper than the Great Wall. Perhaps, that's how the cards fall and holding on to a losing hand isn't worth a bluff against a straight flush.

A famous boxer I can't remember quoted saying 'people will not remember me because of the many times I fell down against 'A', they'll remember me because of the many times I got back up' - well said, Mr Boxer.