• Archive for December 9th, 2011

    please

    by  • December 9, 2011 • * Safe for Work *, Letting Go • 2 Comments

    I love you. I really do, but you need to let me go. The times I’ve had with you were real and they were perfect, but we have grown separately for too long now. I have found someone else who is amazing, but given the choice I would still choose you every time. It’s killing

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    terrified…

    by  • December 9, 2011 • * Safe for Work *, Fear • 0 Comments

    I keep telling myself that i don’t have much to worry about… but in reality, i’m absolutely terrified that this is life threatening. with my family’s history, i have no idea what to expect. i’m too afraid to go to the doctor and find out… all i can do right now is cry because i’m

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    Going To California

    by  • December 9, 2011 • * Safe for Work *, Moving On • 0 Comments

    I thought for sure that I would be hung up on you at least until May. I’m so glad that I was wrong. I like someone new, someone so different from you. He’s smart, funny, and down-to-earth. You’re a sad hipster. I was studying for finals today in the library, you were there too, on

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    I TOLD THEM

    by  • December 9, 2011 • * Safe for Work *, Children • 3 Comments

    I TOLD THEM I was 7 1/2 months pregnant. I told my husband – “please” stop drinking, gambling, yelling at me. I told my mother – who lived two hours away, “please, come get me”. (When we got there, I had a placental abruption.) I told the ambulance driver – who asked about my husband,

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    Dreaming

    by  • December 9, 2011 • * Safe for Work *, Loneliness • 2 Comments

    You look at me strangely when I tell you I love to sleep. “Why not live your life instead?” you ask. “Sleeping is so boring.” I want to tell you that sleeping is the only time I’m at peace. That even in my nightmares I belong. Dreams are so much different than this world I

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