Day 21: 12.05.16

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It's that necklace.

The one that no longer sits around my neck day in and day out.

The one that I can barely stand to look at because it was once meant to be yours.

I can still feel every sharp edge of the amethyst if I only close my eyes.

I stopped wearing it. Not immediately.

But rather over the course of three weeks.

To where suddenly I didn't like wearing it.

Because it reminded me of all of those emotions.


Or maybe it's your jacket.

That now has become hers.

The one I wore for only a day or two

But it still became something I treasured.

The one I ignored my parents screaming at me for.

I act like I don't notice but it tears me apart.

Trying so hard to walk away but never getting far.


Or maybe it's my fingernails.

That I still can't stop biting.

That I had stopped for a while because of you.

But started back again for the same reason.


What about the driveway under my feet?

The one that I force myself to run down everyday.

Only to feel the silence in my mind that goes

Rushing away as soon as I slow my pace.

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