" Estranged"

Is reunion possible after an estrangement? Certainly. Though usually much has changed... And even if things aren't exactly amiss remember, it is said one can never go home again... And you wonder, are old wounds too deep? Has the passage of time been too long? Is the distance too far? Still, we strive for the old warmth, and are cordial, smiling. But absence doesn't always make the heart grow fonder... for people change too, ( and not just in appearance- older, heavier.) as some become broken by life's heavy blows. And even when memories are fond, sometimes they are all that's left while those once closest to us now stand before us near-strangers, strangers filled with secrets and years lost, so much- we are never to know.