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Aftertaste

It didn't happen all at once no lightning strike no single moment I could point to and say that's where it broke

It was smaller than that Quieter

A thousand tiny letdowns stacked like empty bottles in the corners of my chest

People said it gets better like they were reading from a script they didn't believe in either Like hope was something you could hand out without ever running out

I used to believe them

I used to think the world was something worth holding onto that if I just stayed soft stayed open stayed trying

something would eventually give back

It doesn't

Now I see it clearer how kindness gets eaten alive how love turns into leverage how promises rot faster than anything else we make

And me I started changing in ways I swore I never would

I laugh less Trust less Feel everything like it's filtered through rust

Even the good things taste wrong now like sweetness laced with something I can't quite spit out

Bitterness isn't loud It doesn't rage or scream

It settles

In your bones In your voice In the way you look at people like they're already leaving

And maybe they are

Or maybe I just learned to expect it

Either way the world didn't end

It just soured

And I stayed long enough to taste it

a-mind-in-ruins

Everyone I loved, I loved for free. But you don't know how much I paid for that.

a-mind-in-ruins

Everyone I loved, I loved for free. But you don't know how much I paid for that.

a-mind-in-ruins

Everyone I loved, I loved for free. But you don't know how much I paid for that.

kosmogrl

something in me knows where I’m going something in me knows where I’m going something in me knows where I’m going something in me knows where I’m going

kosmogrl

angelicdewdrop

perriaeyjeve

#today was good #4-8-2026 Koh Phangan

dragon-in-a-fez

accidentally said "invasive thoughts" instead of "intrusive thoughts" today and actually I think I'm onto something. this thought does not belong here and it is harming the local ecosystem