Female Robbery (Z.M)

Part III: Boy Leaves Girl...Again

I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldn't be me.

No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I'm forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I'll come up short and suffocate.

At some point I realize he's gone and he's not coming back, so you have no choice but to rise from the ashes.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.