I am exhausted,
Every waking moment pries at my eyes, burning them whilst a single tear rolls freely.
Have I slept through a single night since you left?
No
I am not sure that I have, nor will I ever again. Ever be so certain about something that I could feel it within my soul.
I feel everything.
Then, to be wrong, so tragically wrong that day by day does it tax onto my subconscious and whittle away at my wit’s last end.
How much sanity is left?
Gnawing grinding and grounding my heart into absolute dust. I wanted so badly to be right, and loved, that I am the biggest fool of empathy, that now instead my anxiety says:
I TOLD YOU SO
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