His Lost Rapunzel

Saudade: (n.) a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or that has been loved and then lost; “the love that remains” He never meant to forget about me…did he? We breathed the same air and the same touch when we used to go to our favorite spot, full of my once favorite flowers, making flower crowns pretending to be the princess and the frog. Now I could barely stand the smell of them, bringing memories I longed to forget of sleepless nights and tears that meant nothing. He left me with no trace of bread crumbs to follow; I was the lost ugly duckling, waiting for him to come back and save me from the monster living in my “house”. “I promise to be your knight and prince charming to love you forever”, the sentence he used to repeat every night before bed still lives in my heart, but slowly vanished when he did too, because I learned to accept he really forgot me Amorie Hummingbird, his lost Rapunzel.