separation
noun
1. the state of lacking unit
2. coming apart
3. the distance between things
4. sorting one thing from others
(...)
6. the space where a division or parting occurs
(...)
9. the act of dividing or disconnecting
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University
"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love
who says the more tender things."
(Marcel Proust)
I Know I Have Been Happiest
I know I have been happiest at your side;
But what is done, is done, and all's to be.
And small the good, to linger dolefully-
Gayly it lived, and gallantly it died.
I will not make you songs of hearts denied,
And you, being man, would have no tears of me,
And should I offer you fidelity,
You'd be, I think, a little terrified.
Yet this the need of woman, this her curse:
To range her little gifts, and give, and give,
Because the throb of giving's sweet to bear.
To you, who never begged me vows or verse,
My gift shall be my absence, while I live;
But after that, my dear, I cannot swear.
by Dorothy Parker
