choosing yourself
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She spent too long putting herself on trial for someone else’s silence before realizing the crime was never being too much.
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She was willing to stay through fear and mess, but love could not survive being the only person still reaching.
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Missing her later does not erase the silence that taught her what absence weighs when love refuses to show up.
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They returned after the door had already changed meaning and loneliness was no longer enough reason to let them back in.
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The work may not come with a paycheck, but every poem and page is building something real one sentence at a time.
Between Bruises & Blooms 