• Pieces

    Piece by piece,after every heartache,after every goodbye,I thought I was losing myself. I thought love had taken pieces of me,until I became a womanmade of empty spaces. So I went lookingfor someone to make me whole. I loved peoplewho couldn’t love the parts of meI was still learning to love.And every time they left,I counted…

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  • Twilight

    twi-light Life has an eternal presence of twilight. Never light, nor dark. Happy and sad. A sense of being between two extreqmes. Always in the middle. There is a quiet battle every evening as the sun begins its descent beyond the horizon. Day refuses to surrender, while night slowly reaches across the sky, claiming piece…

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  • Down The Page

    You used to live in my favorites. Right at the top. I never had to look for you. And then today,in the quiet of an ordinary morning,I found myself laughing at a message from a friend, and thought of you without hurting. When I searched for your name,I had to scroll and then scroll again.…

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  • Happiness Arrived

    You used to live in my favorites. Right there at the top. I never had to look for you.Never had to scroll.Never had to wonder how long it had been. You were just there. Until today, when I was laughing at something a friend sent me,sitting in the middle of an ordinary morning,working on another…

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  • I Stayed ;

    Nine years ago today, I thought I had reached the end of my story. I didn’t know there were pages already waiting for me that I had not lived long enough to turn. I didn’t know there would be mornings when sunlight would find me and I would actually want to be found. I didn’t…

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  • Falling In Love

    I used to thinkfalling in love againwould mean another person. Another hand to hold.Another namesoftening in my mouth. I never imaginedit might be something gentler. The way sunlight spillsacross the kitchen floor. There was no defining moment. No morning when I woketo find the grief had packed its thingsand slipped away. No single daywhen everything…

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