I don’t know what to do with myself. I’ve always been like this numb in ways I can’t explain. I want to tell you my fractures, so you can hold them, so you can hold me. But my mouth stays still, my heart stays buried. I want you to see me without the walls, the parts I pretend aren’t there. I want you under my skin, inside the places I keep hidden, where no one usual » Continue Reading
I stand in the shadow of your care, a care given elsewhere, to siblings, to echoes of yourself. Why not me? I learned the world without your hands, clothes unwashed, lessons untaught, a stench of neglect clinging to my skin, a laughter I could not join, because they never showed me how. Nightmares came like storms and your door was a wall, cold, unyielding, while I curled in my » Continue Reading
Something in me rots, and I carry it everywhere. Guilt, maybe or the belief that love was never meant for someone like me. You are too kind. I stand in your light like a thief who doesn’t belong there. I call myself evil, because sometimes it feels true. the way I fail you in silence, the way I never give back what you pour into me. I love you. I love you with » Continue Reading
The sun sets on this day, not gently — but like a wound closing too late. A single star flickers far above, too far to reach, too cold to warm me. You’ll wake to another morning, One without me. Maybe it will be lighter. Maybe it won’t matter. I never figured out, how to say it right. Never found the words, that matched the way, my chest ached. What » Continue Reading
I told myself I didn’t mind. Told myself it didn’t matter, that your absence didn’t sit heavy on my chest, that your voice wasn’t the thing I’d been straining to hear » Continue Reading
You handle me with care, like I’m fragile, like I’m something that could be broken. But it’s not weakness I feel, it’s the weight of your touch, the way you make me feel like I’m worth protecting, like I’m something worth holding onto. In that moment, I could forget everything, forget the world, forget the pain, because all that matters is you. And the way you touch me, li » Continue Reading