it used to be you.

I’m surprised how quickly I became infatuated with a stranger I barely knew. And maybe it was because he was the first boy I saw that wasn’t you or was just someone so new; I cannot tell you specifically, I can only say how he made me feel. And I know the sky is mainly … Continue reading it used to be you.

relief.

And for the first time in a long time, I felt free. Free from unkept-secrets and broken-made promises. Free from hand-me-down love and recycled effort. For the first time in a long time, I felt at ease with myself; by myself; without you.

intolerant.

I told him I would wait for him but by the time he came back, I had stopped waiting; when he asked me why, I said, “Because if you need time and space from someone you think you love, then you simply do not love them."