Where love, heartbreak, and healing live in words
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…