Never Again

[excerpt]

You were the person I went to for everything

Closer than I ever was with anyone else

I was vulnerable with you

Oh how time has passed

How much we’ve changed.

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And we were both lost and were there for each other

And during that time, I’ll be honest in saying I’d never felt better

But when you left, everything changed

First I sobbed

Then I died

Re-emerged as a person of hate

The sadness that I had before was now directed at you

And every passing day, it was just me again, missing what I once had

Alone

In that drowning void that is

Myself

[continue reading in the magazine]