To have loved 

You know what?

I’m happy I tried

No matter what decision was made

At least I’m alive 

Heart was pure 

You faked some love 

Eyes wide 

Now I say goodbye 

Not sure what the games meant

How anyone would have fun

Just to lie

But I love me for me 

And my honesty a prize 

No one can take that

maybe dull my shine for a while 

But I’ll come back brighter

And I will rise 

A phoenix from the ashes 

And you?

A dusty demise 

You just wait

These things just take time

Look for me in tomorrow

Long gone to the skies

It was you all along

It was you all along

Just couldn’t see the 

forest through the trees

Mind got angry

Heart only ever 

wanted to please

The love of my life 

gone and now my heart 

just yearns to appease

We never lost the love truly

Just went through some unease 

Needed to figure things out

Align the timing, our needs.

If we ever met again I know life would

let me breathe

Still feel the hurt from when I had to

watch you leave

And for now, I grieve

Silence

Remain silent & you’ll know exactly what an individual is thinking, because they will make assumptions based on their own thoughts or insecurities & pass them off as observations of their external experience.

But sometimes…

That means a stalemate of two stubborn souls, both waiting in deafening silence for the other to show. One has to break the rule and open a door, or at least a window, voice their thoughts, and if they want more, lean into discomfort, be loud, be clear, to find the bridge back home.

32 years

32 years since I’ve seen your face, since I’ve held your hands or heard your voice. 32 years of longing.

I still remember the twang of electric pain shoot through my body and throat as I heard those words… “he died last night”. 

The stillness was deafening, the finality I want to say overwhelming as I slammed the phone down, but so much more than this. I still haven’t found the words, in 32 years of longing.  

You were always my safe haven, the ear to listen and the shoulder to cry on. You were my whole world, until my world was swiftly taken. 

32 years of longing, and I have still never found respite. Still searching for you in every face, in every day that goes by. 

32 years of longing even though my child mind is now grown. 32 years foreboding, waiting for another foot to fall, perhaps my own. 

32 years, thiiiirty twoooo yeaaaars, I’ve been longer without than ever with. The moment you left us was the moment I wished to leave too. I knew I’d never find such love again, I just knew. 

And 32 years has proven me right. Time and time again. My heart still aches my tears still wet, as I try hold on through the fear. 

32 years. 32 years.

In memory of my loving father 💜 x

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