Maybe she’d try to understand that the dark images muddled my brain until it hurt, until I had no choice but to let them out.
T.L. MARTINNot everyone knows what to do when they come across a snowflake in the desert.
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But I was still weird enough that people otherwise left me alone.
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Like I’m a puzzle to be worked out and he’s got all damn day.
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And you can’t outrun something you can’t see.
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
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Instead of ignorance, I tasted what it might be like to finally be me. I didn’t give a show this time. I had no plan, no calculations. No scolding voice inside my head. For a little while, I was free.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
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Doesn’t he know I want everything? And in return, I’ll give him all of me.
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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
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It’s time to see what happens when I fly.
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God, can he see what he’s doing to me.
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Pushing out a breath, I lean against the wall and slide to the floor. I sit beside her for as long as it takes. Listening until her sobs fade and the shower turns on.
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Come to me in pieces and exist inside me whole.
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I part my lips, but no words come out. I want to cry. Want to beg. Want to scream. But mostly, I want to hold him until I know he’s going to be okay. Then I want him to hold me until I’m okay, too.
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Revenge is all my soul knows. It’s the only thing I’ve lived and breathed for almost as long as I can remember.
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You will eventually lose control, and when you do – when you lose every last shred of it until you can’t see red from black, right from wrong – I will be here. Ready to back you up, the way you should be doing for me.
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