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i guess the thing
that hurt the most
wasn’t you choosing her

it was the way
you almost didn’t
i felt like you used me
as a distraction
when you two weren’t
doing well
We never dug deep enough, wept long enough or hard enough because it was hard enough to get past the mountain of stuff that had built up around us, so we sank into the trough of not enough where not enough became too much and understood that even enough would never be enough because we never dug deep enough.

and we were astonished that time passed, famished in the emptiness that in the fullness of time would calm us enough to find comfort in the stuff we had left behind.

Memories are far too kind.
I pier outside my window as snowflakes slowly fall on top of the almost bare branches, creating a frosted look upon the trees...
I went to the woods
to live nameless and
blameless

While in the crowd
I was called aloud
took blame after blame

Aghast and tired
I went to the woods
to live nameless and
blameless.
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