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