November 12, 2022 – Safe-Space

Wasn’t

November 12, 2022 BooBoo

i think i had to know you to learn what love wasn’t. it wasn’t this tall, dark shadow looming over me at every turn. it

November 12, 2022 BooBoo

it’s confusing the way you make me feel. i was always inadequate to your perfection, not smart enough, not funny enough, not cheerful or cute

November 12, 2022 BooBoo

there were pieces of you that i know by heart – the small noises you made when you were frustrated. your real laugh, and the

i tried to hate you. tried endlessly, on repeat. searching for faults and flaws that i could grasp onto and fling back in your face.

for a while, it felt like something was missing. a heavy fog had lifted, not the landscape underneath looked foreign. yet i knew without a