Madeara

“People always ask
"When did you know?"
It could have been when I woke up
and watched you rest peacefully beside me
Or all those times I learned how much we're alike
But it was when we had that fight
I wanted to cry and laugh hysterically
We didn't leave
We sat in silence
The reason behind it all is so small
I knew then just how much I loved you
And as you crossed over and merely
wrapped me in your arms
I knew just how much you loved me”
― Samantha King Holmes, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel Revised Edition

“As we roll and pat and press the snow into new shapes, I pray that my memories are just as malleable as the snow in my hands. Hopefully my past is as rewritable as I'm pretending it can be.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

“Staying makes no sense, but you hold on because you can. You tolerate the suffering because you're used to mistreatment. And maybe you're ready for something different, and you're just stuck between the floorboards of a home that no longer feels safe and a front door that is actually the exit. Daring yourself leave, eager to break free.”
― R.H. Sin, She Fits Inside These Words (Volume 4)

“my human had no clue,
but my soul knew
from the first moment
that you were mine
and always had been.”
― Courtney Peppernell, The Space Between Us: Poetry and Prose