Tuesday, August 22, 2023

How It Used To Be

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When I feel loneliness settle heavily in my bones, I turn toward my writing and create, remember, and live another moment in my favorite memories.

I’ll just disappear for a while. I drift in and out until unconsciousness takes over, and I'm lost in happier times.

I fix the bad parts and plaster over them with something new.

Like repairing a hole in a wall, I create something from nothing in hope of anything.

And even when my reality has changed, at least I can’t visit them when my world hadn’t imploded.

They’ll smile at me still, their laughter ringing through the cold quiet of my house.

They are the treat I spoil myself with over my morning coffee or right before I go to sleep…

How it used to be…

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