The light has faded from view, yet in my peripheral I obtain meaning from this absence of luminance. Words spoken so callously, and all that has come to pass may never convey truths I have so needlessly searched for. Were this anything other than the parting I had preconceived, nothing short of a dismal outlook would have been granted unto my thoughts. There is no sorrow obtained here; for that is a notion my weary soul has previously experienced.