• In Bloom

    It started like spring—quiet, unsuspecting,the kind that slips in before you notice the air has changed. I didn’t plan for you. You were just there—laughter, light,something soft enough to make me forgethow long I’d been holding my breath. And I chose you. Not out of loneliness—but because, for once,being close to someonedidn’t feel like something…

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  • Twenty-One Days

    they say it takes twenty-one days to break a habit.but you were never a habit you were something I let happen and somewhere along the wayI started learning how to choose myselfin a place that didn’t feel like home so I’m not finishing the days not because I don’t feel it—I do I still think…

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  • Until Now

    I used to feellike I was standingat the edge of something high— calling outto peoplewho never looked up like if I was loud enoughvisible enoughsoft enough someone would finally say I see you but they didn’t and for a long timeI thoughtthat meantI was invisible I wasn’t I was justlooking for recognitionin placesthat couldn’t hold…

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  • Day 11

    I used to wonder what I did wrong what I could have said how I could have been more but I see it now how I made spacefor someone who never plannedto stay how I softenedthe parts of methat needed to be heard just to keepwhat was alreadyleaving and now when you reach for mefrom…

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  • Day 10 (The Key)

    I kept myself lockedso longI forgot if the key still worked. And then you came—with one of your own—and let yourself inlike you had always known the way. I didn’t question it. You felt familiar.Like somethingI had been waiting for. So I left the door open. But you didn’t stay. You camewhen it was easy.Leftwhen…

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  • Day 9 (I understand now)

    today feels heavy not in the same wayas before not sharpnot confusing just…full like my heartis holdingtoo many truthsat once I miss you and I see youclearly maybe for the first time I seewhat you gaveand what you didn’t what I feltand what I filled inon my own and somewherebetween all of that I found…

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