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Don’t be someone’s second choice or forgotten afterthought when there is love out there waiting to cheerfully make you their world.

“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.”

-Virginia Woolf

Truth.

I don't think I was lucky to have him when he just told me he hasn't loved me for the last ten years.
Why would I EVER want to be with someone who didn't love me???
You're allowed to fall out of love - that happens. I'm not angry about that. I'm angry at the lying about it for so very long. Sigh.

3. You are allowed to fall out of love - it happens. Sometimes people grow apart after 30 years. I'm angry that you said you've been "out of love" for almost 10 years and didn't communicate with me. But continued to pretend and even have intimate relations with me.

Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

the rain
washing away the mud
on the steps
I delete your message
from my phone

#tanka #TankaThursday

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

(road / between / us
breath of distance
becoming song
on the wind)

you wrote good-bye
like a hello
that learned
to

walk

evenlimp
ing

#poem

So true

There’s nothing stronger than a broken human who has survived.

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