There was no wound, no visible bruise, but the horror of that moment had me in despair.

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There was no wound, no visible bruise, but the horror of that moment had me in despair.
That strange, slow drift apart creeping and intangible. It's gradual, but you know, the relationship is undead. Tottering forward without warmth, or soul, or pulse.
There's only you, there was no man but you. Maybe that's the problem.
"Happy" isn't what she hoped it would be, love is a mystery - desire a depth haunted by inevitable imperfections.
A misanthropist's heaven: my heart sheltered by my perseverance not to allow anyone to walk in.
Something about her, she seemed so sure but so sad too. He wanted to know her, and yet, they were strangers never to speak to each other. He couldn't stop staring.
You can't live your life waiting.
The living human is cursed hustled along middle-aged, middle income stomping along but alive. Manufactured flesh and smile.
Uttering a few unintelligible words I don't yet possess the language to articulate the emotion, the loss, the anger.
Greed - there was nothing as frightful as this. Nothing as terrible as this.