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  • Fin

    Fin

    I stopped measuring myself against the shadow of your absence.Growth? Perhaps. Acceptance? Almost.Healing? A word too polished for the cracks I carry. This is not about you.It is about me-me realizing that love was never the language we spoke,only longing, only silence, only the weight of what we wished for. We were mirrors, fogged and…

  • Even in the Silence

    Even in the Silence

    Can you hear me, thinking about you?Or did I sever that thread too cleanly?Can you feel my body yearning-Or did the fire from the bridges scorch that away?I reach out for you in the darkWould your lips still wait for mine?Or did I lose that right when I let go?It’s been three days.Three days of…

  • A minute-A lifetime

    A minute-A lifetime

    Love? Lust? Lost.In your eyes.Found-in your arms. The end of searching.Time slowed for us.Heart racing like it knew something I didn’t.I breathed you in like air after drowning.Weak in the knees, but steady-steady in my feelings for you.Do you remember?I do.I remember reminding myself to breathe.To believe you were here. Mine.I remember forgetting my independence…

  • Still.

    Still.

    I thought I’d outgrown it.Outgrown you.Outgrown the way my mind loops back to you like a song I didn’t ask to hear but still know every word to.All these years later. And yet-there you are. Or maybe it’s the memory of you.Or the memory of me with you. On you. Beneath you.Or the wish.The wish…