• Day 8: I didn’t go back

    my heart felt heavythis morning like something in merememberedbefore I could stop it and then you reached out again softsimplefamiliar like nothing had changed and for a moment I felt it the pullthe achethe version of methat would have answered that would have gone backjust to feel close again but I know now you never…

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  • Unlearning

    Unlearning the past is harder than anyone tells you. I thought forgiveness would be the end of it.Like turning off a light. Forgive.Heal.Move on. Simple. But healing doesn’t work like that. It circles back.Quietly.At the worst times. Some days I feel proud of how far I’ve come.Other days I meet the parts of methat were…

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  • After

    you led mesomewhere I didn’t recognize a place that feltendlessand empty and for a while I thoughtI might disappear there because something in medid change something quietsomething I can’t fully name like there was a version of methat didn’t make it through and I had to learnhow to livewithout her but what you didn’t know…

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  • You Let Me Stay

    I don’t know how to stop loving you.I’ve tried— God, I’ve tried—like holding my breath underwater, waiting for the feeling to pass,but you are oxygenand I keep coming back up for air. You know I love you.That’s the part that breaks me open—you know,and still you let me stay. You let me sit in the…

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  • Day 7

    Grief makes strange decisions for you. Today,I went back—not all the way,just enough. Enough to sit across from youand rememberhow easy this feels. How familiar.How quiet my mind becomeswhen you’re near. For a moment,everything stopped hurting. And I let it. I needed that. But I didn’t forget. I didn’t forgetwhy I left,or what I deserve,or…

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  • I Didn’t Die

    You taught mewhat love felt like—and what it feels liketo lose it. You showed meeverything I thought I wanted—and everythingI wasn’t. You checked every box…and then drew a lineI was never meant to cross. You were never mineto begin with—and never mineto end with. And still—you look like everythingI ever wanted,and everythingI lost. You cross…

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