Tag: mental-health
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[no right to]
For S. You know who you are, and I hope this reaches you. I am deeply sorry for everything. -A I had no right to ask the things I did from you— my anger misdirected, tangled in fabric you had no part in weaving. The sweatshirt hung on your shoulders, its threads held by his…
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[over you]
I don’t think I’ll ever get over you. Not because I can’t moved on But because you have -Amelia James
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[the sin of forgiveness]
“Forgive as Christ forgave you,”they echo in hymn-like insistence,their voices a choir of guilt and grace,hands pressing the weight of absolutioninto my weary, unwilling palms. But forgiveness, they forget,isn’t a coin to barter my pain away.It isn’t a hymn sung out of tune,or a cross forced onto my backas if the hurt were mine to…
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[him]
For C. You know who you are. You don’t deserve a single thought of mine, but here’s one anyway: fuck you for everything you did. Hope it haunts you forever. -A Go fuck yourself.Take your lies, your half-truths, your gaslit apologies—your “I love you’s” that burned like acid in my chest—and shove them where your…
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[this old home]
I find myself again At the front door Of our abandoned love. I’m wearing out my welcome With the many times I visit, Yet I cannot seem to stay away. Cobwebs cling to corners,Sheltering forgotten memories—Fragments of you and I,Back when you still loved me. I step inside,Polaroid picturesLie scattered on the floor,Each one a…
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[lies to ash]
We were two sides of the same coin,polished by his lies,cast into a game we did not agree to play.He spun us both in his web,each thread a whispered promise,each knot tied to another betrayal.We hung there, suspended,two strangers bound by a truthneither of us could fully hold. I once thought you the thief,a shadow…
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