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What Scares You When You Close Your Eyes?
When you close your eyes at night, what happens? Do you hear the bombings? Do you see the last gun fire you were involved in? Someone’s last breath they take after you shot them as they bleed out? What...
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I Need Air
I can’t breathe. My chest is crushing in; it feels like you are standing on my chest. I close my eyes and all I see are those awful words you wrote. Still, now. All this time later. I try everything I...
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Writing is Amazing Therapy
Today Jack would have been nine months old. Without everything else that has happened, I would have silently celebrated what would have been his life today and every other day since I learned of him....
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From a Distance
From a distance, I observe you. I see how things are now, how you are now. It makes me so sad. There used to be so much life, so much love, so much happiness. It’s gone. I don’t even see a glimmer of...
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The Bunker
It’s gotten cozy in here. I am safe. No one can really hurt me because they can’t get in. I don’t see out. I don’t see what is going on outside of here; how others are living – out having a good time....
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You Can’t Save Me
It may seem logical that the person who broke you will be the one to fix you. I just don’t see how that’s possible. We often say to people in our relationships, when they fail us, that they have...
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Dave
After the live-in and I split, I decided to immediately get back on the horse and start dating again. I did what anyone with no friends and no real social life did, I joined Match.com. I also went this...
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Can’t Ask for Help
I had something come up today that I need help with. And I can’t do it. I can’t ask anyone for help. I can’t ask anyone to help me. I can’t pick up the phone. I can’t dial the numbers, or really just...
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Total Recall: Denied
It sorta rumbles; it feels very hollow. It’s a cross between starving and nausea. It radiates outward from my stomach, causing labored breaths and tingly fingers and toes. I clench my jaw. My mind...
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You Know How They Say “A Year Later You’ll Laugh About This”?
It’s true. You really do. I laugh at the absurdity that someone would bother to create a fake profile of me and humiliate me by sharing my private information. I laugh at the absurdity that someone...
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