#021 NEVER is - NOR can be

NEVER is - NOR CAN BE

Byron said: 'A mistress never is, nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends' . We can apply this idea, also to spouses i.e. husbands and wives. Friends can become lovers, mistresses and spouses. Return to the old relationship is difficult, though not impossible. Humans require greater maturity of
mind to establish and understand true relationships. The love relationships (marrital or otherwise) may not break up if people have such mature minds. We, in spite of using the best glue and fasteners, cannot tie/paste back to the branch, a pumpkin which has been cut/plucked from it. (7 sentences).
REM: Appreciate Byron's sentence construction 'never is - nor can be'.