It took 5 days to leave
To leave someone you “love”
5 days
To decide to break all your promises
5 days to ruin someone’s
Perception of love
Their body
Their soul
Their mind
For someone else
You don’t even know
5 days after a years worth of
Unwavering
Faith
Loyalty
Love
For the pleasure of lust
It was a one night stand
Let’s all be adults and admit that
You had no feelings whatsoever ...
I clocked out of work early, excited to see the woman I just married months before. We had just got off our honeymoon and I got some flowers on the way home. “Is this for Isabela?” The woman at the register looked at me and smiled like she knew something I did not. “Umm yea.. I’m sorry do I know you? I didn’t see you at our wedding?” She laughed. It sounded like nails on a chalkboard. I winced and...
I stumble upon a new land
Hoping to leave the old one behind
The pain
The memories
The tears
As well as the illusion of happiness I had all along
I go deeper within the trees
Hoping to find anything or everything
The warmth of the sun
Turning cold
And the trees
Barren
What I thought was the worst
Wasn’t?
But…that didn’t make sense
Why?
I was promised a paradise
No.
I wasn’t
I knew the ris...