One day, when the sky stops falling

I will return to myself

I will look around, with relief in my bones

And allow my muscles to melt

I will find the things that I used to enjoy

And my time will know no limits

The voice in my head will quiet

The people we’ve become will cease to exist

You will no longer need me

And I won’t be so depending

We’ll no longer falter to keep each other up

When the ...

“Mamaaaaaa!” The 5 year old girl jumped up in the bed and buried her mother’s face in sweet little kisses. An audible groan came from the 11 year old boy on the small cot at the foot of the bed. Opening her eyes to the sunlight peeking through the curtains, she sat up stretching her arms wide, back arched and ended with wrapping her arms tight around her little girl. She smiled big for the first t...

Six years ago I was young, dumb, mostly drunk, and a little bit in love. We were a good looking couple, freshly 21 and a year and a half into dating we just knew we had to live together. I loved him, and I knew it—I wanted everyone to know it. Sometimes I wondered if he was too good to be true, he was just so pretty. He made me laugh, actually he made everyone laugh. He was always the life of the ...