i’m sitting here and once again, i’m dwelling in the way you make me feel.
i’m overcome with feelings of sadness, disbelief, and grief.
i grieve over the person i thought you were.
the one before all of the truth had spilled from your rotten lips, and turned my heart into this vulnerable, little piece of glass.
everytime i breathe, she punctures me yet again. she begs me to explain to her as to why i did this, why i allowed you to hurt her again.
i remember her before i met you. i used to pray to the god’s above you’d see her for who she really was. she was loving. she was brave. she was kind. she was thoughtful. she gave pieces of herself to strangers who needed them more than she did.
back then, she craved loved. more than she craved respect, more than honesty, more than her fear of rejection; she didn’t understand what love was, so she accepted your fucked up version of it.
i wish i could sit down with her, & tell her to brace herself. i would prepare her for the worst year of her life. i would tell her how you made her feel so small, how your opinion shaped how she felt about herself. i would explain to her how she will end up crying, craving your body next to hers.
i never understood people when they referenced love being a drug. not until i experienced it. not until i laid awake at night, shaking because i didn’t have my fix of you. the only thing in my mind was when i would get my next high off of you. you were more important than anything else in my life & my world revolved around you.
i’m afraid that eventually i won’t remember the day we overslept, and how you rushed to get ready for work.
you threw on your boots, slicked your hair back, and tossed on a jacket you had hanging by the photo your little sister had made you.
i want to remember how we woke up that one christmas morning to your grandparents making breakfast, and how soft your nana spoke when she asked me how i liked my coffee.
you and your grandpa sat there, screaming at whatever sport was playing upon the screen. i want to say you were watching baseball, but it could have easily been football, or Nascar; i was so captivated by you in your pajamas, and messy hair.
i want to remember the night we first met. i want to remember the booth we sat in, the leather seats, the songs we played; every aspect of the night that had changed things for me. i had been unusually excited, and as soon as our mouths opened, they never shut. we began learning each other, studying the features on our faces as the other one spoke, and for someone who was so misunderstood, my soul heard yours as if they’d met before.
i remember when you first told me you loved me. we had gotten into a fight over something that shouldn’t have mattered, and i don’t even remember what it was about anymore.
i’m listening to her sing and i find myself utterly broken. what if i never again find someone who will love me the way she did what if i never again get to love someone so fiercely and with such joy. i miss her like an ache in my bones and i don’t know if i’ll ever meet someone who understands me quite the way she does. what if i’m unable to find a bestfriend whose soul spoke to mine the way yours did?