Where love, heartbreak, and healing live in words
I dreamed about you last night. I can’t remember all of it. Only the feeling of trying to reach the end of something and waking before I could. Maybe I was trying to say goodbye. Maybe some part of me still believed there were words left between us that, if I could only find them,…
I spend so much time wandering through my memories because that’s the only place you still exist in my life. It’s strange how a person can disappear from your days but remain everywhere inside your mind. I visit the sound of your laugh the way other people revisit favorite songs. I replay conversations until I…
There were daysI was certainlife had mistaken mefor someone stronger. Days that arrivedwith empty handsand still managedto take something. I thought survivalwould feel heroic. Instead,it looked likegetting out of bed,answering one more call,believing tomorrowmight softenwhat today could not. I used to wishI could eraseevery wrong turn,every goodbye,every crackthat split my heart open. But standing here…
The Way Home I used to thinklove was finding someonewho felt like home. A place to exhale.A voice that softened the noise.Hands that promisedthey weren’t going anywhere. So every time someone stayed,I unpacked pieces of myself. A little trust.A little hope.Another roomwith my name on the door. And every time they left,I walked through the…
I kept thinkingwe were lookingfor the same thing. A placewhere the noisefinally stopped. I called ithome. You called ita placeyou’d only visit. I used to wonderwhat I didto make youkeep choosing distance insidethe momentsthat should havefelt closest. Now I know it was neverabout me. You weren’t afraidof loving me. You were afraidof meetingthe parts of…
My heart was under lock and key for so long. Not because it didn’t want to love,but because it had learned what it cost. It built walls.It learned silence.It kept the lights offso no one would know there was still a home inside. Then he came into my lifelike an unexpected storm. Not the kind…