roses in the wintertime ✓

absence

❝ life happens. we lose people, meet people, and then lose them again. you were a different case. i met you. i love you. i lost you.

your absence taught me that life doesn't continue if you're not there. your absence taught me that i could not let go of something i had gripped onto for so long. you became my roots. my home. my roots.

when you stumbled into my life after almost a year, life happened.

but oh lord, when you told me you loved me life happened too fast.

and you were gone before i could even say it back. ❞

– 5:04 pm from oh the hands that held me (unpublished continuation of faint heart to faint heart)