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my friend cried over her ex today. she texted him for the first time in weeks and told him that she missed him. i scowled and looked away because i wanted to text my ex too, but for different reasons. i wanted to remind him of how he set my soul on fire, pinched the cinders between his fingers, and wiped it off of his shirt. later, when i rose from the ashes of who i was, i wanted to remind him that he is the cause of his own destruction. his ill-treatment chipped away at my soft edges like a chisel, until nothing was left but that hard, fiery core. he burned his hand as he was chipping and asked me why i let him burn. and those were his last words. so yes, both of us were swallowed by the fire but only one of us emerged as a phoenix.
