1.

“if you are broken

and they have left you

do not question whether you were

enough

the problem was

you were so enough

they were not able to carry it”

2.

“what’s it to me

if you love me or

miss me or need me

when you are doing

nothing to be with me

if you can’t allow me to be

the love of your life i will be

the loss of your life instead”

3.

“i will not have you

walk in and out of me

like an open doorway when

I have too many miracles

happening inside me to be

your convenient option”

4.

“she is water

soft enough

to offer life

tough enough

to drown it away”

5.

“i have dug my way

out the ground

with palm and fist many times

my whole life has been

one burial after another

i will find my way

out of you just fine”

6.

“and here you are living

despite it all”

7.

“if you were born with

the weakness to fall

you were born with

the strength to rise”

8.

“you were not wrong for leaving

you were wrong for coming back

and thinking

you could have me

when it was convenient

and leave when it was not”

9.

“it was when i stopped searching for home within others

and lifted the foundations of home within myself

i found there were no roots more intimate

than those between a mind and body

that have decided to be whole”

10.

“what i miss most is how you loved me. but what i didn’t know. was how you loved me had so much to do with the person i was. it was a reflection of everything i gave to you coming back to me. how did i not see that. how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you refused to take your eyes off it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left.”

11.