Month: July 2025
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[erosion]
you said you wanted to marry me.not in a grand gesture,just softly—like something you already believed. you gave me your grandfather’s ringand placed it in my handlike a promiseyou hadn’t finished writing. and i built a future around that sentence.let it echothrough the quiet parts of my day. i imagined holidays with your family,mornings in…
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[terminal]
they say it’s over.but my body still flincheslike it’s not.like the break-upnever left the room. grief doesn’t always howl.sometimes it just lingersin the same clothesyou wore when the story broke. they called it heartbreak.i called it survivalwith a limp.they called me dramatic.i called it remembering too well.they called it the past.i called it current events. you…
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[trojan horse]
they didn’t believe her.not when she cried.not when she begged.not when she said,“this isn’t just in my head.” they told her to move on.to stop making it worse.to let it go. but you didn’t let it go, did you? you picked up her storywhile she was still living it.scratched your nameinto pages that weren’t yoursand…
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[enough]
i think the worst partwas how subtle it was.how you changed just enoughto make me second-guess myself.how the distance came in inches,not miles.how you said all the right thingsbut started meaning them less. you thought i wouldn’t notice—the shift.the pauses.the way your storiesgot softer around her nameand sharper around mine. you kept sayingyou loved me.and…
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[brave]
you called me bravewhen i stood by you.when i fought for us.when i swallowed my doubtsand made excuses for your distance. you said i had this strengthyou’d never seen before—how i held things togetherwhile you slowly let go.how i kept believing youeven when your stories didn’t line up. but the second i stood upfor myself—the…
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[firewall]
she showed upwhen i couldn’t stop shaking. didn’t say much.didn’t have to. just looked at the wreckageand started walking through itlike it was hers to carry. i don’t remember calling her—the text messagecovered in tearsnever hit send. but she came like she’d been waiting—like she already knewwhen it was time to take over. she didn’t…
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[the girl with snakes in her hair]
they called me a monsterbefore they ever called me a girl. before the breaking.before the silence turned sharp.before survival made a weapon out of me. they saw the curseand never askedwhere it came from. no one caredthat i was beautiful once.or soft.or sacred. they only caredwhen i stopped being easy to touch. so i stopped…
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[unraveling]
it didn’t happen all at once.losing your grip rarely does.it’s not one moment—it’s hundreds.small fractures. tiny rewrites.she stepped into a story that wasn’t hers to finish,picked up promises still warm from my hands. the first time i noticed, it was…the subtle backtracking.Denials slipped in like casual conversation.“oh, i never said that,”even though i remembered the…
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[counterfeit]
The shield he raised for youwas hammered from the promises he broke to me,tempered in the heat of his lies,etched from the splinters of my heart. You felt safe behind it—I felt the blade on the other side. Your comfort was carvedfrom my betrayal,your protection forgedfrom the wreckage of everything he swore to me. Call…
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[the one]
I was the one,but not in the wayyou thought I’d be.You called me “the one,”but it wasn’t the kind of loveyou wrote aboutin your story.It wasn’t a fairy tale,no happy endingin sight. I stood there,with the light of your promisesshining in my eyes,believing I was the answerto your questions.But somewhere along the way,you slipped out…
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