The nurse tells me that I should stay the night, just to make sure there were no complications. There are six beds surrounding me, three on each side of the room, two are full.

I draw the curtain closed and try to make myself comfortable, it’s pointless. I sigh and sit up, beginning an audio book I’ve been meaning to get to.

That’s when I hear a clicking noise slowly approaching me, it sounds lik...

Oh to grow old with someone.

To trace your hands lovingly over the same face.

To come home and lay with someone who offers the same sense of safety and comfort you so long for.

To hold the hands of someone you couldn’t live without.

To know that you will never have to fight for them to love you.

To get butterfly’s when they walk in the room and sigh with relief when you realise you are home to e...

This walkway felt familiar, i knew it so well yet I couldn’t quite pick where I had memorised the narrow halls. Every door I tried to open was locked, “figures”, I whispered to myself as the sound of the door rattling echoed through the building. I walked slowly down the never ending corridor, my footsteps sounded so lonely. The door at the end of the hallway was the only one so far that was illum...

You never asked, but no I don’t miss you ,

(Sometimes your a thought in my mind

On semi dark nights in a moonlit room

and the shadows mimic your smile)

You never asked, but no I don’t miss you

(Sometimes, when the wind rattles through the paper on my wall

I hear your laughter )

You never asked, but yes

I care about you,

Every minute of every hour of every day

You never asked, but yes

I noticed ...

Memory breathes.

But not your memory,

It gasps for air.

As I push it as far under the water as possible,

Our memory is drowning....

I stood, frozen as they swarmed in, metal clinking and their voices loudly rumbling. If I had slept at all last night I don’t know I could be sure that this was reality. It felt like every movie scene when the killer gets busted.

But I wasn’t the killer.

I knew they had to come sooner or later, but it didn’t make this sudden sense of helplessness any easier to process. I was pushed to the ground,...

I was never an early riser

Until I was up to answer your texts

I never never up late

Until talking to you was more important

I always took photos

Until you didn’t like it

I was always myself

Until I changed for you....

The world will burn.

At least that’s what I thought

When you left

It felt as if the world would fall

In ash and rubble at my feet

But not at yours.

Because you were fine

You didn’t miss me

Not like I missed you anyways

You had them

But just as always

if they ever hurt you

The world will burn....

Freedom is a strange thing,

An idealised result of all the things that trapped you.

Freedom does not come with the person,

Who holds you close,

Makes you laugh until tears peak your eyes.

Freedom comes when you discover the things they gave you can still be found without them.

The same joy you found with them is the same joy that can be found,

When I butterfly leaves it’s perch,

When the clouds ar...

I watched you with them.

I watched you do the same things.

I watched you make the same jokes.

I wonder if you thought of me.

I wonder if you held our memories close like I do.

I wonder if you ever miss me.

I hope you never forget me.

I hope you look at our old messages and wish we would talk again.

I hope it hurts.

I forget how seeing you makes me want to cry.

I forget how it felt to look at you a...