To The Person Contemplating Suicide, If I Asked You To Stay Would You
I’m sure you’ve thought about how you’ll do it. Maybe you’ve come up with a plan already. Maybe you’ve already written…
I’m sure you’ve thought about how you’ll do it. Maybe you’ve come up with a plan already. Maybe you’ve already written…
I realized something I probably always knew, that I did still love you, which scared me in a way. I think there are certain people you’ll always love no matter what they do to you.
But if you keep working on yourself and keep focusing on your own goals without letting outside factors of negativity influence you, what you’ll come to find is success on your own terms.
I think there’s a moment where they enter your life and there’s a before and after in you.
When I look at someone with their arm around you, all I think about is that person I held as she cried over him. All I think about is how much pain I knew you were in and I couldn’t fix it.
You made me feel safe in a life where I’ve questioned everyone and everything and learned to only trust myself.
I want to be the space in bed you don’t mind sharing and when I’m not there it feels too big.
In loving the wrong people and giving the best parts of myself too soon it taught me to be smart. It taught me if I want people to treat me a certain way it first begins with how I treat myself.
I changed in your absence. I become someone I wouldn’t have recognized in the mirror some time ago. I became someone who doesn’t need you.
We never gave up on each other, not once. And this isn’t me giving up on you now. This is me accepting the fact that I don’t need you the way I once thought I did.