Dreams and Reality “Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive…it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.”— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home
on some days
she feels
its working out
its all going well
-
what a grave mistake
let me take a different route
-
she never
understood people
even when she claim she does
-
indecisive minds
disrupted thoughts
Almost
The days turned into weeks
And then into months
Creeping closer to the time of love,
And suddenly you were gone.
Promises evaporated
As easily as the mist
Empty wisps of smoke,
Which no longer exist.
Reasons: distance, timing, conflict, crying
A million reasons for you to leave,
A million more for why you should’ve stayed.
And I’ll admit,
sometimes at night I still see your face
And in my dreams,
asking me if we should try this again
A strange kind of wistful longing
For what we could have had
Everything we could have been
The words that went unsaid.
But I don’t miss you anymore
At least, not that much.
You taught me to be brave,
And to not fall apart.
I think it’s time to move on now
Towards better things
But you’ll always be there with me,
A forgotten dream.
“But really,” she tells him, “I don’t need you to understand the chaos that surrounds me.”
“I just need you to love me while I drown in it. ”
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