The smile that grows across your face each time you take a moment to smell a flower.

The peace you feel on a quiet street at sunset listening to the birds sing as they fly above your head in the light breeze on a warm summer evening.

The love that fills your chest each time you remember the friends you once thought you'd never have, all the times they choose to share with you, the kindness they show you each day.

He frightened her to a point she thought she would never reach

The exit of him from her life was a necessity she only wished it didn’t end in fire

She wanted it to end in snow

Soft, gentle and kind

Covering everything she owns in glitter

Instead it’s covered in cold dark ash

So she starts working to clean it all up

If all I can do is

Sit,

And stare.