Twisted Lies

“Like you’re the most beautiful, most remarkable thing they’ve ever seen.”

The words lit every molecule in my body and dissolved them into a pool of exquisite, unbearable warmth.

We weren’t talking

But now that I finally had a future worth living for, it was time to let go of the past, once and for all

The world wasn’t black and white, no matter how much I wished it were.

And sometimes, we found our happiness in the shades of gray

I would rather be miserable now after having been loved by you than be happy without having ever known you.

nothing that good could last forever

I’d seen all the warning signs and ignored them because I’d been too caught up in the excitement of falling in love for the first time.

I will always be here if you need me

“I love you. So fucking much.”

The calm and the chaos, the silence and the storm.

The calm to my chaos, the silence to my storm.

amidst all the death and chaos, a light existed somewhere in the world.

Some days, that light had been the only thing that’d kept my soul intact

walked over and retrieved the turquoise ring from the ground.

I pulled the ring out of my pocket.