#healing
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a thank you carved from the hurt you left behind
i want to thank you, though saying that feels strange in a mouth still full of hurt. gratitude shouldn’t live this close to heartbreak, but somehow it does. somehow it rises right alongside the ache, the confusion, the betrayal, the grief of being turned into someone i never was. when you came into my life,…
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every chapter made me someone i didn’t know i’d need
there are days when i look back at my life and it feels like holding a stack of old, dog-eared pages — some soft around the edges, some ripped straight down the middle, some stained with tears i never admitted were mine. and sometimes, if i’m honest, i wish i could rewrite a few of…
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when two bitter people link together
“bitterness can link two people in a heartbeat, stitching their wounds together like matching scars. but a bond built on resentment is a fragile thing — loud at first, then hollow, then gone. only truth has the steadiness to hold, only honesty has the spine to last, and only light can keep anything standing after…
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love deserves to be shown, not just spoken
there’s an ache that comes from hearing the words “i love you” without feeling their weight. sometimes love sounds perfect in theory—soft, reassuring, familiar—but words, when left unaccompanied, begin to lose their strength. they echo instead of embrace. they become whispers instead of warmth. love isn’t meant to stay trapped in sentences; it’s meant to…

