All Unsent Messages
Thank you for showing me how to stay and I practice the right words in the mirror. I hope you re loved where you are.
I still reach for the phone and I wonder if you kept anything of us. I ll walk forward softer than before.
I m choosing peace over almost and it startles me that you won t answer. I ll put the phone down now. I won t rewrite this again.
I hope your heart takes up space and I collect myself in small pieces. I ll remember you on quiet Sundays.
I am sorry for the sharp words and somehow the world keeps happening. This is for the version of us that almost was.
I left too many words unsaid and I practice the right words in the mirror. Maybe in another life we make it.
I threw jokes at your pain and I tuck the ache into my sleeve. I m choosing to breathe without you.
I wait for your green dot and somehow the world keeps happening. If this reaches you know I tried. That s okay.
I can draw your handwriting from memory and I still don t know who I am without you. I ll put the phone down now.
I keep our inside jokes alive and I practice the right words in the mirror. I will keep the soft parts of us.