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Pictures Breaking Apart
I don’t know how to sort through all of this pain, it doesn’t make sense and it shuts down my brain. You were just here, and now you’re so far gone, it’s like a decade never happened and I was never more than a ghost. My tears are no consolation, I’d bleed if I had the courage just to feel anything again. I don’t know why you chose this, and I can’t stop my imagination from running through your new life.
What words could I have said to make you stay?
What if I never came out, could we be a happy family?
I know you didn’t sign up to be with a trans woman, but you promised me a thousand years, and this seems so much shorter.
I keep thinking back to June, it was the happiest time of my life. Surrounded by our loved ones, everything finally felt right. Now the house is empty, my heart is dead and gone, and these tears won’t stop falling because my world is gone. All I have is this picture of us.
I just want to know what made you leave, what made you let it all go?
Remembering this day makes me question my sanity, was I delusional? Were my vows not good enough? Was it my weight? Was it just simply that you…
