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Leaving a Mark
I don’t know what to write anymore. I am afraid. I don’t want the truth spilling out everywhere, in places that I can’t contain it. I am forever just cleaning up messes from the things I do and say, from the things I am too frightened to do or say. And I’m not even manic…
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Memory Issues
I am longing to remember. The water feels cool, the sound of it lapping against the rocks at the same tempo as my heartbeat. Don’t you remember her? No, I can’t. I can’t picture her face. I draw circles in the water, and they disappear before my finger makes its way back to the beginning.…
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Relationships: Hearing Voices
More than once I was in a relationship for longer than I should have stayed. There was such discord between the things I wanted from a relationship, and the reality of that relationship that I had several mental health challenges. Rather than face the truth that I should just let someone go, I hung on…