Three Words

One wrong move. Just three words. Uttered with resignation and frustration. Often tinged with the futility of regret.

To be followed by three more words.

I should have........
I should have been wiser. I should have seen it coming. I should have known. I should have thought about it.

Usually linked to three fatal words.

It's too late........
Too late to love. Too late to recoup losses. Too late to reconcile. Too late to undo.

Just three words, entrapping people by sucking them into a dark vortex known as depression.

And yet........
If we bothered to just pray, seek out God's will and confirm it, those three words would never need be uttered at all.