Is it weird that it doesn’t hurt as much as it did ten years ago when your sister called in the velvet of night with heartbreak in her voice and pain in her cries to tell me you were no more? I googled Grief and How Long It Lasts to get an idea of when […]
Well, it’s almost ten years now… four more days unbelievable how time has floated by. My tears dried up over the years, but a crack still in my heart from a loss so unexpected. Time has covered up the crack not very well but it tries what remains, I can’t describe. A decade ago, death […]
Sadness-tinged bones dug out of a clay grave, bleached white as linen, the love bled out of them no story to tell.
He calls me Sugar And I melt a little bit more than I thought I could or should, or ever would — his smoky voice wafting into my ear, smoky tendrils of promise wrapping themselves around my fogged brain, pulling at my heart strings, asking them to loosen, to allow it to beat freely and […]
It was eating him from the inside out. Four years of a privately waged battle that we knew nothing about, watching speculations and gossip fly about as his physicality drained from him right in front of us. Still, he remained silent. And the world talked. Like it typically does. It filled in blanks that it […]
One day I decided to not take it anymore. Now, it didn’t just dawn on me that day. Some days before, after the cuts and the pleas, the seed had been planted somewhere in those days when ribbons bowed around flowers and smiles curved around hurt. Those days were the hardest, to be honest, but […]
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Love, Loss, and Life's Adventures
The heart harries the mind to tarry; only dead fish go with the flow
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