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every day will eventually end

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When I met Bobby I had been single for a long time.

I hadn’t gone on a date in about four years, and I had lost all confidence in myself, both emotionally and physically.

Every once in a while, usually when we’re fighting, he brings up the fact that when we met, I was doing intense EMDR therapy to, as he says, “get over” my ex.

It’s not getting over my exes that is the problem – they’re all gone for a reason.

Getting over the way things had ended was the issue.

I was stunned by it; it was … Read the rest

Book pages shaped into a heart with the words "Love Shouldn't Hurt"

take your best shot

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I talk a lot about
not being willing
to set myself on fire
to keep another person warm

but I’ve never talked about
getting thrown in your ocean
and tossed around in the waves
pummeled with walls of water

you’re supposed to be transparent
but you hit like a brick wall

call the calvary,
I’m coming home anyway

Inspired by the Writer’s Write October prompts | Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography

i’ll never stop missing you

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I didn’t want
to wake up today

It’s not that
I wanted to die, but
I just wish I could
skip this day
every year 

I’ll fight every hour
many times over
to stop myself
from imagining
one of the worst
things imaginable 

My grandfather
who I loved more
than I will love
any other man
in my whole life

Died alone
in a hospital
in 2020 when
no one was allowed
to be with him

How could
the greatest man
who ever lived
have such a sad
undignified death?

I hope he knew
how much I loved him
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