I keep looking... for the one that will never come.
I keep looking at my phone for your text. You hurt me and when I was honest with my words you left. I know my words hurt you, you didn't like hearing what I had to say. I was mad at you, I was annoyed, I was tired, and I just so desperately wanted to tell you all my secrets. I really liked you, I loved how wild you where, how the world was your party and wanted to make sure everyone was invited. How much you cared about your job and the people in it, how the person the world saw wasn't the same person I saw.Â
But you wouldn't open up to me, I so desperately wanted to hear your secrets, it didn't even have to be secrets, I just wanted to know about your day. Where you okay? How was school going? What was the newest song on your playlist? But life is fast paced and we are both working in careers that leave little to no time for personal interactions.Â
I was told you slept with a girl you knew a long time ago, you also texted me that you really wanted to see me. But you where also having dinner with the girl from work, but you told me how much you missed holding me. We where never together so I could never be mad but then life happened... Â I was in a downward spiral. I wanted to tell you I was falling, I wanted to cuddle up in your arms while listening to your dumb jokes and smelling you aftershave. But I was taught men don't like women who are not what the world see. So, I fell silently and when I hit the ground I quietly picked myself up and started making my way back up to the top of the cliff i had fallen from.Â
You left me for a long time when I was falling and during that time I met others who softened my fall. I got to know theses other people and you started to show up less and less in my thoughts. Then when I finally made it to the ledge that I had fallen from, you where no longer in my thoughts. I was holding the hand of a lovely man who wanted to hear my secrets, who asked me if I was okay, how school was going and what the newest song on my playlist was. He had softened my fall.Â
Then I looked at my phone. There was the message I had been waiting for, hoping for and had forgotten I even wanted. I looked up and the lovely man that had been holding my hand was gone and I took a step back and fell off the cliff a second time.Â
This time I didn't meet other people who softened the blow, this time my back hit the ground hard and the air left my lungs.Â
Four days, thats how long it took me to sit up from where I had fallen. You wouldn't think that at the bottom of a dark cliff there would be service. It did. You messaged me everyday wondering why I hadn't answered.Â
You hurt me when you kissed those other girls, you hurt me when you ignored me for days and weeks only passing through my life when it was convenient for you.Â
Some how you where able to make me feel like I was everything and nothing all at once, and that hurt me the most.
 So when I finally answered you on the fourth day after the sun was hidden well behind the cliff, my words where not as kind as they could have been.Â
My body still ached from my fall and my heart still hurt from the return of forgotten memories. Only after my unkind word where spoken did you tell me how you fell.Â
How you still didn't know about your appeal, how your friend tried to committing suicide, how you where struggling with classes and how you where just trying to not lose yourself.Â
You apologized to me and you left.Â
Why didn't you tell me before? I wanted to know, I wanted to help soften your fall. I just remember falling and seeing you smile, and seeing you throw the parties you invited the world too. I gave you every opportunity to tell me so why didn't you tell me! Why did wait till I hurt you, I didn't want to hurt you.
 I just wanted to feel better. I wanted to cuddle up in your arms while listen to your dumb jokes and smelling your aftershave. So you said sorry and you left. I didn't know what to do.
What should I have done? what did you want me to say?
I would say anything, anything to soften your fall but instead I said goodbye.Â
Now everything seems so circumstantial. I realize I am still sitting at the bottom of the cliff and I can't remember how I got back to the top. I realize that with my word I had unintentionally tied a rock to your ankle so you would fall faster. I realized now that I don't have service anymore.
I keep looking at my phone for your text... the one that will never come.