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

No more traveling 
alone to New York City, 
or sad rides on trains. 
No more being the only 
unpartnered one on holidays, 
no more soul-aching 
single Christmas nights. 
No more tears, 
no more talking to myself. 
I have a sidekick 
for sightseeing now, 
and I never want to let him go.

all I ever wanted
all I ever needed
all I ever asked for
was your love,
your time,
and your respect

what I really needed
(what I still need)
is to believe every word
that falls from the only lips
I want to kiss
for the rest of my life

I need that
I deserve that
I hope I get that

Inspired by the Writer’s Write October prompts | photo by Brett Jordan on Pexels

the pressure has always been high
in our imperfectly perfect relationship –
sometimes it felt like it would only take
the smallest little poke to make
this whole thing fall to pieces

but i feel your love in my artieries
pumping into my heart, and then out
farther – we would live forever
if we covered the whole world
with all the love that’s in our veins

Inspired by the Writer’s Write October prompts | photo edited by me in Canva

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