She's the open window and the closed door. She's stale and bitter, but tastes as sweet as freshly picked fruit on days the sun rays make love to her skin. She's everything she tried her hardest to be, she's everything she didn't want to become. She's the kind of girl who drinks herself to sleep on Sunday nights, hoping to find him in the same level of desperation. She basques in his absence, she grieves in loneliness. She is not who she is, she is a side effect of who she was made to be. I've never seen anything like her. I've never known anything like her I was always aware of her, but I never feared her. I never knew she'd become real to me. But I found her. I found her in the bathroom this morning. I found her once my head came up from the faucet after swallowing six pills too many. I found her in the honest glass. She smiled at me and glanced down at my trembling hands. I looked her in the eyes, and welcomed her home.