The sadness creeps in, the questions linger, my morality is still - but my anger doesn’t come and only a vague incomprehension stays within me.
It’s been three days we haven’t talked. It’s been three days I haven’t been able to (not) look back at our older messages.
Am I a loser, a sore ex-lover?
I’ve talked to Mom about the rights and the wrongs. But mostly about what is right, what feels rights to me. Or what will feel right to me. I don’t know how to feel about that.
I feel I ought to make you read my every word for you to comprehend my deepest affiliation. But maybe that would be too much. A task. A tediously long and selfish, egocentric ask on my part.
I like to think I liked confiding in you, and, dramatically, I remember when I confessed things to you. My long and short phrases, coming to terms in the air, and the way, for a bit I would talk to make the words linger and come to life, make them truer by saying them out loud. Directing my own fall by your side.
It felt like that, the last time we spoke, the last time I saw you. A week ago.
I don’t cry as often. But my heart, broken, still belongs to you.
This love letter ain’t the sweetest, I know. But, as for now, it’s the only way for me to cope with this.
Eyes watery, shaking neck. Maybe that’s the sadness you felt, every night, while I was away. But you do knew I loved you, right? But you do know I love you, right? This very thought fears me now, as I don’t want to linger and let my heart in this unknown land.
I want to talk to you, the 27th. But mostly, I want to see you, the 31th. Or I don't. I don't know. But I feel I ought to. And you too. I feel you ought to make yourself clearer. I feel I - as your lover last time I spoke to you was let down too easy. We didn't work on anything. We didn't try. And maybe that's what is so damaging and dramatically direct about this breakup, about this heartbreak.
The one thing I like is that we get to be ourselves - we are not a status, we are people and I think (or I would like to believe) we will behave like people. I only hope you'll say more. Or that you'll have realize that my conscious (as well as my unconscious) couldn't fandom so much in so little time. Maybe it didn't work - but a heads up would have been nice. I was ready to book something, to tell you what I wanted to do for my last week.
For our meeting, I want us to do what we like and be ourselves. And I wish for you to realize that even thought I maybe spoke too little of my plans with you, I wanted them to work. But mostly, I want to understand more of you. It seems something got lost as I stood by your side. And that's how this recurring thought of me, at your side, ignoring something I didn't fully know was happening keep hunting me. (as well as those dreams about you, lately)
The thought of you looking gently at me on that dreadful Saturday electrifies me, keeps me awake, wondering. The thought of you writing about me does, again, bring my eyes to quiet tears. But I don't know how to react, truthfully. It's more of a mixup, a tangled, lovely mess than it is something shocking, rude, and loveless. After the outbreak these last days, what a gentle, innocent and sad breakup, it seems.
I hope even if I don’t want to. I love because I love. Maybe my lack of romance during Christmas eluded you.
Mother says I take the blame where I shouldn’t.
I’ll stop writing for tonight. I miss you. I miss the way we innocently sent each other heart images. I smiled sadly when you replied to it last time with a smiley face.
Maybe you’re “there” and I’m still “here”. But, mostly, do you feel loved? Do you feel happy? Was it worth it? Love can endure so many things, Audrey.