Dying to Love You
I flipped on lights as I moved through rooms that never quite felt like home, more like a way station where my father and I occasionally crossed paths between his business trips.
In my room, I pulled out a fresh notebook, the words already forming in my mind.
Poetry had been my secret outlet since middle school, something Mrs. Jenkins had encouraged after seeing potential in an angry kid's jumbled thoughts.
I'd never admit it to anyone but Sam, but the words helped make sense of the chaos inside me.
Tonight, I wrote about skin silvered by moonlight, about trust and vulnerability, about the precise shade of honey- brown eyes looking up at stars. I wrote about fear too, fear of change, of loss
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