Peaceful Roses

“We are interchangeable, replaceable, temporary, dispensable, never permanent, remember that and you might make it.”

“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn’t have loosened. A stitch come undone.”

“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn’t so.”

“Even in a place you know intimately, each night’s darkness is different.”

He would have waited for her. He was in love with her. He wanted her to stay. It broke him to watch her go, but he didn’t fight. He didn’t part his lips. He didn’t share one thought or emotion. He allowed her to get away, and he can’t seem to let her go. Now he’s silently chasing her. She’s the one. She’s his laugh, his smile and his heartbeat. He plans to fight this time. He can’t lose her twice.

Sis, you know why he’s not changing? Because everything about you says that he doesn’t have to.

“Some people teach you the depth of your heart by first ripping it to shreds and that’s why you meet them, these human shaped hurricanes, these devastating beings disguised as soft flesh and bone.”

He waited for her to go back to the person he was comfortable with, but she never did. She couldn’t. She was now too much of everything, to ever go back to nothing.

“Sometimes we meet people, and we just love them. We don’t fall in love, we just love them. Instantly, and always”

He made the mistake of thinking that she’d be forever in love with him, so he lived his life without consideration. She pulled her heart back and without even trying, she fell completely out of love with him.