grief – tash writes

i would call but times made a fool out of me. months have passed since we last spoke. darling and this is what’s become of us. you’re a stranger. someone i no longer know. the sad thing is that i don’t think i ever truly did. somehow you meant so much to me in so little time but now these months have passed and you’re gone, like you were never really here. but if i’m being completely honest i miss you. and i know what your going to say, i know it sounds stupid, trust me i know. i know i’m a hopeless romantic, i feel things too deeply, and i love too much and have a breakable heart. there have been so many times i’ve wanted to reach out, my fingers have hovered over your name too many times. i don’t think i should, i think this time i’ll keep it to myself. and darling there are somethings i don’t want to know, for the sake of my own heart. i think i need to let it be. but why couldn’t it be simple. can’t i just miss you, does it have to be in a certain way. i just miss you being in my life, i wanted you to stay. i didn’t want it to end this way. there’s this grief, this heartbreak that comes with the passage of time, when these unsaid feelings are left never to reach you. darling i was careless with our time, my words and my heart. there’s been this ache in my chest ever since you left and i can’t quite explain why i so greatly feel the loss of you when you never really mine to lose. i feel like i’m being haunted by the what ifs, the what could have beens, a foolish dream. what am i meant to do with these memories, they still haunt my heart. i remember that night, the one we sat for hours talking. i smiled like an idiot all the way home. midnight was fast approaching but sleep wouldn’t come. you left me with my heart racing. it was that night that made me realise my feelings for you. i would have waited hours just to see you smile at me the way you did that night. i think we both know that these were never just words, never just feelings. it couldn’t be simple. it would always mean something. these words will always mean something. you’ll always mean something to me.

-eternally yours, in the understanding that you will never be mine.//t.c

times moved on, and i’m here forgetting. memories blur, i can’t remember the sound of your laugh, the way you said my name, and the way my heart felt when i was with you. darling i’ve been left with only sadness for a long time, longer than i’d care to admit. i never knew how overwhelming it could be, how it comes in waves. how heartbreaking it is to live with it. i will have loved you for ten years. nearly a third of my life. and in that time i’ve been half in love, half heartbreak. i never knew how much joy you’d bring, you would always light up the room, everyone loved you and i would always want to be the one to make you laugh. and i never realised when you’d leave how much sadness it would bring. i never knew it would linger, that it would become a part of me. i know i never told you a lot of things, all the things i should have told you. i should have told you – you were my first love, the one that felt real. i never imagined that you’d become a stranger, someone i’d no longer know. i miss you, yet now i don’t know now if i could ever just be your friend. maybe this distance between us was a blessing, but darling it feels like a curse. maybe we weren’t meant to withstand the test of time. maybe we weren’t meant to be together, but god i regret a lot of things when it comes to you and i’d go back in a heartbeat, for just more time with you.

–heartbreak season