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The Girl Who Fell In Love With Death
It has been many months, since I saw you last. Eighteen, to be exact, since our secret trysts stopped, since I sent you away, telling you, it was the last time. It was always the last time. Every time, I don’t expect to see you again, but you follow me, like a phantom, finding me,…
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Divorce
I was on the pier, playing my part in filling the ocean, collapsing under the chaos of home, bound to return, but broken at the thought. For a moment, for the very first time, I was alone. There had never been a voice, or even a familiar, friendly hand to hold, just a promise of…
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Disappointed, Devoted
Disappointed, devoted, I drown my sorrows, in dark fruit cider, a dramatic Luis Miguel playlist, and a bed that is so used to my heartbreak, that it has learned how best to hold me, so I don’t entirely fall apart. I can’t remember who I was, before becoming your plaything, and though I strengthen as…
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Summer Nights
The summer nights are long and light, I used to love them, sitting with the sun, but now, the never ending daylight won’t let me rest, keeping me awake, and aware, of how solitary the summer becomes, when my heart is a hostage, that can never come home again. Maybe, one day, the sun and…
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Lockdown: Day Number… Honestly, I Don’t Know
The world is ending, probably. I’m not a doctor, or the prime minister, so I can’t be sure, but everything feels unapologetically apocalyptic, so I’m not sure what else I’m supposed to think. I think I’m supposed to panic, but I’m actually relieved, laying in the dark, remembering little moments of life, my heart, still…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 