There are days that pass without incident. Days when I feel fine. Days when I cope and I smile and am strong. Those days come more often but the memories never leave me. There are days when I wish they would.
I am never without him yet am perpetually alone.
I do not want him yet I crave his company, his words and his perfect knowledge of me.
I do not miss him yet the gaping hole remains crudely unfilled, the rupture never to be healed.
I live my life yet float in limbo.
I enjoy my single life yet despair that I shall never find anyone like him.
I hide behind the happy façade while I push people away.
I maintain the pretence of strength whilst I crumble a little more each day.
Days like these come less often yet they seem so utterly insurmountable when they arrive and I allow myself to drown a little more each time.
I understand that this was love but fail to comprehend how, after almost a year apart, someone can still haunt my thoughts, feelings, emotions and relationships so long after walking away. I hate myself for still wondering why, despite my fight for him, despite my lies to his family, he refuses to fight a little more for me. I loathe the fact that I still feel sick at the realisation that I was nothing to him whilst he was everything to me. I abhor the cold and cynical woman I have become – a woman who sleeps with strangers to avoid emotional entanglement, a woman who uses men for nothing more than physical gratification, treating them with impersonal tenderness and assuring the emotional distance is forever in place.
I am perplexed by how I can feel bitterness and forgiveness in such equal measure, how my life can feel so dark when all I want is eternal sunshine.
