Tag: domestic violence awareness
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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…
amelia james poetry
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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…
amelia james poetry
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[july 9th]
I didn’t know that message would be the last. Just one more silence in a string of almosts. No explanation. No goodbye. Just the quiet click of you choosing not to answer— and me, still hoping for a reply I knew wouldn’t come. No note. No apology. Just an echo of everything I thought was…
amelia james poetry
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[i ask myself]
I’ve turned over every stone,counted every crack in the walls of memory—still no answer. I’ve read the words until they blurred,marked the places they lied,where I begged for truth and found silence instead. But the question stays.It hums beneath my skin,it drips through the cracks of every sleepless night: Why? Why did they choose ruin…
amelia james poetry
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