I’m starting off on a new piece of paper so I can wipe clean the
memories of yesterday, so I can forget the girl I was, and become the
girl that I am, or maybe have always been. I’m never true in these
pages, that aren’t even pages, just simply dots and dashes combined to
create a much faster, but less true version of my thoughts. Where we end
up is somewhere between reality and sadness, but somehow still a step
above where we really are. It’s like the words are bleeding so fast that
I’m losing my head before the contents have been spilled. It doesn’t
even hurt sometimes. It doesn’t sting, or swell, require any stitches,
but it sure as hell kills you inside. It kills those places that weren’t
so black, dyes them the wrong shade because of misguided intentions and
fast-paced decisions. This world is broken, and I have only words
bleeding forth much faster than they ever should, the words spewing
forth from my mouth tangling and snagging on the shards of a
relationship that I’m, for the first time unsure of. How does life take
you down such roads? Or is it I that am leading myself to tears?
I
also wonder when such talent becomes a bad thing. I’m praised for my
mind daily, never on the inside but showered with almost bitter
compliments from all those around me. You’re so smart, you’re so
reliable, you’re so… different from the rest of us. But am I? I’m the
same stupid little girl that wanted happy endings, the same girl that
waited 18 years for a man worthy enough to sweep her off her feet. But
he’s dropping me, and I wonder if I won’t get carried off beneath the
wheels of the carriage that by now should have already turned back into
the pumpkin. My dreams are crushing me, or will.
It took me years
to steer myself in one direction, and now that I’m a year and half down
the path towards something I might really want, it’s killing everything
that I thought I would have forever. My goal, to cure the world of it’s
misguided intentions of saving itself through means that would never
get them to the place they dreamed of. I want to end suicidal behavior,
drinking binges, and victims allowing their own abuses. I want to end
misguided lives, to cure people of their stupidities almost, but I can’t
even see my own. I can’t get past my own, because the ability that
enables me to read others, is the same one that keeps me blind from
seeing it in myself. I hurt myself every single day. I kill myself
inside each day a little more by never being honest, never speaking up,
never acknowledging what is happening to me, around me, because of me.
It’s always circles, it always was, and I’ll circle back to tell you
that it’ll never change.
I am broken, and I do all that is in my
power to keep myself that way. I lost a father so drastically that I’ll
never recover. It was slow, heartbreaking, and destroyed every chance I
had to have a normal relationship in the future. I will always hold on
too tight, react too soon, and close up inside every thought that may
damage it until I can hold it in no more. That release in the end is
wonderful, it’s all out there, and real, like the girl I used to be, but
at the same time it’s too much, too soon, too unchecked. I let my brain
shutdown for 30 seconds and let it all out, and that’s just it. It’s
not me, and it’s definitely not the girl that he fell in love with.
I
am a disappointment through and through. I don’t know how to keep a
relationship going to save my life, and I may never know. I probably
won’t, because the minute that this one ends, as much as I dread the
thought that it’s even possible, it will all be over for me. I will
prove myself right. Because love doesn’t break the boundaries that so
many people believe it does. Love cracks at despair, loss, and change.
We can’t control love any easier than we can capture it. It’s alluring,
and speaks false promises of a future we’ll never see. It hurts people,
and leaves them empty. Maybe in the end we will see that love is what
doomed us from the beginning. Love is the real enemy. Love is the war.
But
I’ll keep fighting. We’ll all keep fighting. Until there comes a day
when the promises stop being whispered, when the twinkles in the eye
stop grabbing our attention, when the wits and brains of the boys cease
stopping time to show us it may be worth the five seconds to call out
his name. The battle will rage on, engulfing generations old and new. It
will never end, because love promises to be never-ending. Always and
Forever, a contradiction of time and place, of reality. But still my
favorite lie.
May he never walk away, or give up on me. I’m still
healing, as I see with my knowing eyes that he is too. We’re trying to
heal, but the answer lies in letting the other heal it. You must face
what makes those tears build, not what sets them finally free.
I
don’t really believe in love anymore. When I was little I thought it
would cure the world, but after growing out of my naïve self, I see that
it is the virus. We let it spread until we can’t handle it anymore.
Love can’t be all you are, and I think that’s the biggest problem I’m
having. I need for love to be everything in my life, and I need for it
to never go away. But that’s a silly childish dream that I need to
overcome. I need to grow up, if only in that small sense.
So
here’s to loving, in moderation. Here’s to living for me, instead of
through him. Here’s to life not being so fucked up. And finally here’s
to me, because maybe I deserve it.
Tip back the cup of misery, and take a swallow to set you free,
Jenny
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