I can’t stop checking even though I know I’ve been lied to and I know you think you’re playing me somehow. You’re telling me one thing as I am literally seeing you go and act the opposite way. I trust actions over words, even the really sweet ones. I don’t want to keep feeling my heart sink like a stone every time I find something I know I shouldn’t have to see. I was ready to leave everything that meant anything to me if it meant the chance at truly being happy in a way I had convinced myself was impossible. I told you all these fears and you seemed to calm them down until all of a sudden emotions got too involved and now I can’t stop hurting. I haven’t cried about it since I decided I was done but I might need to. Not for him but for me and my heart and reassuring myself the love I can give is something I deserve to receive too. I deserve to feel like each day is a beautiful blessing and to feel like the weather is happening around me for the first time again and I can smell all the changes in the air while feeling joy for the future and excitement to experience it all and wonder at being there in that moment when I could’ve been missing it. I want to feel the joy I know I can see in a box shoved to the back of the shelf in a tall closet I can’t quite get to…. Well this was everywhere but I guess that’s my brain dump for now














