Hamlet's Girl

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

When you love someone, it’s never over. You move on because you have to, but you take them with you in your heart.

I am pretending you did not exist. Ink nightly washes black over my consciousness and abandons me as morning seaweed upon a foreign beach. I am pretending we were simply the sparkling imagination of some higher being, our life together set below a singular epic sky unrepeated in future histories. I am pretending I cannot taste you each day as I do the sea air in my breath when I am running, my heart tied upon one foot, ancient melancholy tied upon the other, anxiously racing, madly racing through lifetimes, to find our brightened souls. I see you in colors that don’t exist. It is all that I see clearly. and why I run.

Some people come into our lives, and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.