Tag: heartbreak recovery
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it’s been 33 days
but my synapses don’t know that; they have beenconditioned, and reconditioned, through the lightning that I let into my bedroom, but they are functioningjust as they should. they craved the electrical impulses,and we triggered the release of each neurotransmitter each time I climbinto my side of the bed.because I’ve washed the sheets over and over…
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time became so heavy
but I would push the minutehand down and down if I could possibly liftanything so heavy. But Iam tired fromthe way I have been carrying the daysthat Chronos refusesto lift on his own.And my backis so small. There wasso little surface area to begin with when all of thisbegan. But the days won’t seem to…
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I wouldn’t change any of it
except for all the thingsI did wrong and all the thingsthat replay in my mind even as sleep tries to draw me in.no I amtrapped insidea music box, and the melodyis so beautiful– I wouldn’t changeany of it, except for that one thingthat just scratches the ears wrongfor a millisecond, except for that onething that must…
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I want to find her—
the woman you fell in love withbecause she soundslike me. I wantto know what it feels like to look in her eyes and feel like the universe could collapsewithout her because she soundsso lovely when your mouthshapes the soundsto describe her. I want her back, as if I ever knew her;I looked in every mirror and readeach…
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Sunflowers
I am trying to createa garden within myself, wantedto discover what could bloomwithin the fasciathat covers each rib, but I kept worryingabout the sun and could not stop calculating how many hours I would lose if the Florida skybegan to cryagain. I could not stopthinking about how muchit rains in the state that boastsabout how the sun…
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every song ever written has left me forsaken
because I remember the way that music would flowthrough me. and it was love, the way my muscles knewhow to react to each careful chord, and the waymy nervous system would harmonize with lyricsand make them a part of me. but the musichas forsaken me. the notes are stuckin my bones, and they are clashingin…
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grief
The days are fighting with meagain, and they have made a habitof doing so. They have tamperedwith the gravitational pull the moon has on the blankets of my bed and they are hoarding the air—they know I need it for sound to travel, but the daysare fighting with me, and I am leftwith the silence.
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What belongs to me
I am in the process of relearningthat while this air is shared, borrowed from the atmosphere over and over and over, this breathbelongs to me, or at least it doeson the inhales. On the exhales,when I sacrifice the oxygen from my lungs, with no promisethat I’ll ever get it back— it’s then that it belongs to us.
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Blue
I have beenavoiding the color blue,but it’s my favorite color—I have engulfed myselfwithin it, took the deepestbreaths I couldto let it consume me. I have been avoidingthe color blue, but the skyrefuses to turn greyalong with me, suddenly unable to produce storms.
