Priorities Are Painful unfolds in the quiet hours between goodbye and letting go. Through tender imagery and introspective pacing, Rita Marie captures the vulnerability of one sided longing, the kind that lingers in morning light and unanswered thoughts. The poem holds space for what isn't said, tracing the sting of watching someone choose another, while grappling with emotions too complex to name. It’s a meditation on time, distance, and the ache of not being the one they come home to.