The hardest part in letting go, the primary reason that you just can’t get past it, is the lack of understanding what happened.

The inability to make it make sense.

You’ve reviewed it a hundred times.

And it plays on repeat over and over again.

Still, it doesn’t make sense.

You can’t add it up.

You think if you delete the pictures, the texts, that voicemail, it’ll make it easier to complete the process. But you can’t.

After all, that’s all you have left.

It’s almost impossible to fathom how, for one that never plans beyond next week, you let someone become your world. Then watched helplessly as that world collapsed.

Now, you only focus on tomorrow.

And damn, that pain, that’s the kind of pain that’s going to leave you angry for a very long time. Anger is so much easier to hold onto than sorrow.

Now you sit there in the quiet, refusing to allow the images you treasured, take up space in your head as you drift off to sleep.

Once again cocooned in your pillows.

In the morning you remember, the lessons learned from letting people in and how this one got in deeper and only drove those lessons home.

You keep telling yourself that you knew better. Haven’t the last three years given you enough realizations to know that absolute faith is non existent?

Where are You

I’ve always been the glue that keeps it all together

The first one to make a call

And not talk about the weather

The one that gives in

To stop all the fighting

Pouring my heart out

With tears as I’m writing

All the things I didn’t say

It hurt biting my tongue

People don’t really listen

I learned when I was young.

My words are too real

Too raw with emotion

They bruise, cut and scar

Destroying the notion

All the times I was silent

Or Didn’t say a word

Your every action and nuance

Was profoundly heard.

All the times you said

“I’ve got your back”

My shadow is there

But where are you at?

The River

The waters look calm

Yet nobody can see

The riptides and currents

That lie in the deep

They stay on the bank

Fish from the shore

But where the water is deepest

Is where they’ll find more

Cozy in their life jacket

They choose not to swim

For the river is wide

Just around the bend.

It flows steadily through

What lies beneath

Muddy waters protect

Secrets of the deep.

There are no divers

Looking to expose

The vast treasure

That’s buried below.

So when the storm comes

And the water rushes on

Don’t fear the flood

It’ll soon be gone

It will take what was briefly

Exposed to the light

And push it down stream

Completely out of sight.

Maybe down river

In the midst of its fury

Someone wont  fear the storm

And find the treasures that’s buried.