If I could write like EMILY DICKINSON, I'd be dead

It just happened without me knowing it, we ended, and now we’re over. I can’t remember our last kiss, the last time we held hands, or looked at each other as if we were friends. So kiss me one more time, so I will remember when the last time was. Sign in to see full entry.

Today, I lost my cool. Your constant picking at one another sent me to that place where merry-go-rounds clank in my head and multi-colored balls frantically bounce between my eyeballs. Today, I yelled over the two of you, while you ran through the house chasing each other, fighting over the wig that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Nobody told me it would be this hard, that it would hurt this bad to force myself to go to sleep each night and have to beg myself to get up each day. Nobody told me that the very people sitting in my corner telling me to take a stand would suddenly disappear from the ring, leaving me to face my... Sign in to see full entry.

In loving you I rediscovered myself, places I thought were dead and hidden valleys I didn’t know existed. In losing you I realized I could close the door on my revelations, vow to never love again, wrinkle my face, scoff at lovers, grow old and die. Or I could leave the door open for even greater... Sign in to see full entry.

"You are the brightest star in my sky." You grab your backpack, glance at me, almost smile but roll your eyes instead. "Be a leader today; reach beyond your potential." You pretend you don’t hear me, distracted by something other than my voice, but I notice as you sit up taller and hold your head a... Sign in to see full entry.

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I said after my home flooded, "You sure find out who your friends are." It was a mistake, however, to believe that people who show up to help you in a tragedy such as that, or such as the loss of your child, is truly an act of "real" friendship (not to say it isn't, but it doesn’t always indicate... Sign in to see full entry.

You say you miss me, love me more than I’ll ever know. You say you can’t forget me and have to see me once more. I tell you it will pass, knowing it will, praying it won’t. Like an image captured for a moment in the corner of our eyes, I see you there and then you’re gone again. You return once more... Sign in to see full entry.

If it was just a friendly voice you wanted, I would’ve been happy to oblige, a friend with benefits, I could have done, needed one myself. If you just needed someone to get you through, a rebound you could easily walk away from, I was on the same page. So, why! Why did you have to say the things I... Sign in to see full entry.