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...