Anonymous

To The Man I Love Who Slipped Away

I’ll always be there for you if you need me to be, no matter where or when.

You were a dream to me. Now I’ve woken up.

You broke my heart again in the exact same way you did before.

He’ll never understand that I’m not only after his heart. But if I was, would that be such a crime?

I’ll say, “I loved him” instead of “I love you.” Is that enough to lead us somewhere new? Enough to lead us to nothing.

I guess you left me a piece of you when you held me tight. It was the first time someone had held me so close I thought time had stopped.

My mom and I both feel things like bricks and we barely know the difference between love and pain.

How strange to think that, just like that, I realized I hadn’t mattered to you at all.

Saying sorry doesn’t mean losing, which was something I had feared for the eternity of my dating life.

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