[knuckles245]

Remember this,

inside of me fights for you,

more than you'll ever understand.

...and possibly never will.

[knuckles245]

The part you gave me

Some people need a villain to make sense of their story.

If that role belongs to me in yours, I accept it.

Willingly.

Not because it's true, but because your healing matters to me even if my character in it doesn't.

[knuckles245]

Funny how heartbreak works.

People think it arrives all at once.

It doesn't.

It arrives in ordinary moments.

A phone that finally rings.

A name that still makes your chest tighten.

A voice you've heard a thousand times.

I carry you with me in the quiet spaces of my day.

So I let the silence stand.

Not as punishment.

Not as revenge.

But because I finally understood that sometimes the hardest act of love is refusing to pretend everything is okay when it isn't.

[knuckles245]

What's the biggest lie ever told?

They asked it like a joke, like a story meant for laughter, a reckless tale from younger years, a harmless mistake buried in the past.

I thought about it for a moment.

Not about stolen candy.

Not about broken rules.

Not about the lies that got me out of trouble.

Those were small.

The biggest lie I ever told never left a trail of suspicion.

Nobody questioned it.

Nobody called me out.

In fact, most people thanked me for it.

It was only two words.

"I'm fine."

I said it when my chest felt hollow.

I said it when sleep became a stranger.

I said it when every smile was borrowed and every laugh was rented.

I said it when I was drowning while standing perfectly still.

The worst part wasn't that other people believed me.

The worst part was how many times I repeated it until I almost believed it too.

Years of hiding storms behind clear skies.

Years of carrying weight and calling it strength.

Years of bleeding quietly and convincing everyone it was only rain.

So if you ask me what the biggest lie I ever told was, it wasn't complicated.

It wasn't clever.

It wasn't even convincing.

Just two words spoken a thousand times.

"I'm fine."

[knuckles245]

[sunflowerstwin]

[emotionalwords]

[kradhe]

[shisasan]

Photography by Liz Collins

[irr777s]

[soluksuret-deactivated20260516]

[dreamy-bigirl-nextdoor]

Hearing you moan would cure me

[radicidiluce]

[knuckles245]

The rain came right on time today.

[shadows-of-infinity]

No chance of escaping

[emlowkeyloud]

In her kiss I taste the revolution.

[knuckles245]

Always!

[lamentsburlesquewriter]

Dismantling you little by little

Piece by piece, closing in on the precipice

My nefarious intent startles your reflexes

Electric shocks flow out your pores

Plummeting to the depths, your hands catch

Gasping, you just might drown…

Emerging from the tide, you’re speaking new languages

[gothredy]