Troubled Heart
After Lilac fell asleep again—her hand still resting over mine, her breathing finally soft and even—I got up.
I didn’t turn on the overhead light—just my laptop and the small lamp by the desk. My journal app open on the screen. I was never big on handwritten journals, mostly because, as Darius likes to say, I have the handwriting of a serial killer. So, instead, I designed this secure journal app to keep all my private thoughts written out, not always in a manner that makes sense to others, but I always understand.
The cursor blinked on a blank document, quiet and expectant. It was time. Not to fight, not this second. But to say something.
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