She never knew what waking on the wrong side meant, Just sheets and sunlight, a morning unbent. Till he smiled and said, “The left is the right— It’s closer to my heart, it feels just right.” So left it was, where she learned to lie, By the curve of his back, beneath love’s sky. She folded her dreams to fit his frame, And woke to mornings that never felt the same. Then silence cracked like porcelain skin, He walked away, and the ache walked in. An empty bed, a hollowed chest, No left or right—just no place to rest. She wandered through nights that had no name, Searching for someone, anyone, to blame. But broken hearts have a curious grace— They beat louder when given space. And in that quiet, something stirred, A voice unspoken, a feeling heard. Not left, not right—not his, not borrowed— A place she chose, no longer hollowed. She turned her pillow, made it hers, Tucked in strength beneath the covers. And when she woke, no need to decide— She’d slept well, at pe...
TO MY LOVER’S EX, You may not know me and it is all right, I would not say that I know you either. We both have a part of him that will never leave us. Well, it is never possible to delete someone’s existence from our lives. He tells me everyday that he would stand by me till his last breath, And I believe him with all that I have. He looks into my eyes and it is always there, The love, and with it, the fear too. He has the fear of losing the love he has sought in many others, The fear of not being good enough, Good enough to make someone want to stay. The fear of being left in the dark by the one light of his life. To my lover’s ex, I hope you are happy now And that you have found what you were pursuing But most of all, I hope that it was all worth instilling these fears in him. No hard feelings, we all have needs. I wish we had met earlier, for I could know you better, 'cause no matter how hard I try, I always wonder why, just why would you wound h...