He loved me like someone repeatably stabbing me in the heart and then kissing me like everything would be okay. I’d cry sometimes, and like a junkie I’d come back screaming, “I can fix this.” As an optimist, I sure don’t know when to give up. Love is the strongest narcotic and the only rehab…
Tag: love
Six Words
“He likes me, broken and all.”
Yesterday’s Poem
It’s been two years, three months and five days since our last breakup. We were for real this time. This time there wasn’t any “I’m sorry” or “We’ll do better next go around.” We just gave up. We gave up on the daily texts and the hourly how was your day recaps. What we had…
& Unwritten
I thought about calling but I knew your wouldn’t answer. I keep you in prayers before I fall asleep. I still think about you dream about you as if we still speak. It weird because even when I don’t like you I love you. I’ll never be able to give my everything to someone the…
& In Case
Strong enough to leave you But weak enough to need you Cared enough to let you walk away I took that dirty jacket From the trash right where you left it ‘Cause I couldn’t stand to see it go to waste “In Case” –Demi Lovato
& Texts From Last Night
Texts from Last Night I love you. I miss you but I don’t want you back. Not being friends is hard. Maybe we could work if we tried again. Maybe we unraveled again because we had too many loose threads. Too many secrets, too many people, not enough of “I’ll try.” “I’ll trust you. We’ll…
& To understand me you have to meet the people I’ve met and see the places I’ve seen. These things are behind my optimism.
Scarf: Burlington ($7) Jeans: Rue21 ($24) Shirt: Rue21 ($7) Boots: Myhotshoes ($20) Watching a documentary on two police officers who give eight drug dealers a second chance by assisting them to get their life on the right path. The officers help some of them get their GED and even drives some of them to job…
& Maybe Technology Has Made Dating a Bit More Complicated
Text messaging has to be one of the worst ways to get to know someone that you’re interested in dating. Text messaging leaves so much room for interpretation and it doesn’t seem as personal as picking up the phone and calling someone or going to a movie together. I think I’m going to make…
&–Generational Stairway
I rarely write nonfiction but one of my professor’s swears that my life is so interesting that I should write nonfiction instead of fiction. The terrible about nonfiction though is I have trouble exploring my feelings and not wanting my words to hurt others. So I write fiction and incorporate some of the things…
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