Writing Prompt

You’ve gone. you’ve gone.

Gone far away.

I’d give my soul if you’d just stay

My heart in pieces,

Scattered on the floor.

Drops of blood that rain and pour

You should have known,

Maybe better than me

What should happen when you leave

You were my life,

The only good in each day.

So I left too, I went away.

After you left, I left in the only way I knew.

You’ve come back, but I no longer need you....

Way back when I was an angsty adolescent,

I put all my eggs in your basket.

Foolishly, I trusted that you would be gentle with me

For I am too sensitive for my own good.

You were my lifeline.

I was perpetually suffocating under the tremendous burden of carrying the care for your well-being on my back—

I turned around to see you holding a knife.

You hadn’t the courtesy to take a load off my plate...

I built you up strong

Even though you made me weak

I took my weak pieces and attached them to you

To make you strong so hopefully one day we can get stronger

I’m stronger on my own

I don’t need you

I want you

Because of my weak pieces

Not because of who you are now

𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷ℯ𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈ℯ ℴ𝒻 𝓌𝒽ℴ 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓌ℯ𝓇ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓃....

You've come back but I no longer need you.

I learned to love you.

To love you through the easiest honeymoon phases but also through the hardest chapters.

I learned to be there when you needed me, to cook your favorite meals, to memorize your work schedule. I've learned to become the perfect woman by your side.

I thought I was doing exactly what you wanted.

I thought I was exactly what you wanted....

depression.

i needed it.

the dark to

6th grade me’s light.

the day I realized

what time I should fight.

i once needed depression.

i got it.

i’m glad it’s over,

but i wouldn’t take it away.

years, years later,

you’ve come back,

inching closer like a caterpillar,

ticking like the minute hand on a clock,

creeping like a black cat in the dark.

see, all those and more too.

you’ve come back,

my dear dep...

When your gone,

Your the only thing that matters,

When your near,

I feel like you would rather be gone,

Has that not been true all along,

I guess we just have to move to right song,

Let the others ones skip by,

Take this trip it’ll be nice,

Because you have come back,

But I no longer need you,...

I begged death to take me

The first time you walked out—

Left me broken, shattered.

Cold and hollow

My tears could’ve filled a lake.

And I wept, and I wept,

Until even my tears

Grew tired of weeping.

I couldn’t walk out

Without looks of pity.

Then you came back.

I thought, this is it.

You came back for me,

Because deep in your heart,

You knew you couldn’t live

Without loving me.

But what a f...

When i was 3 you took my fork.

i still remember that.

When I was 8, “daddy daughter dance”.

Mom offered to ask her friend to take me, but wouldn’t have been the same like everybody else.

Eleven. “Mom can you ask dad if he can call?”

she asks, and tells him what day it is.

“Im pretty busy right now, maybe later. but happy birthday.”

Twelve. Add him on facebook.

No “Add friend” or “friends...

The man I knew was funny

Talented

Kind

And than he changed

He came back smelling like beer

He yelled and screamed

I was always scared but to scared to leave

Belittled me until I was nothing

No one else saw him for what he was

And than one day he left

I felt lighter

Happy

As time went on I moved on from my past

I forgot about the man I knew

Until one day

There was a knock

I opened the door

And t...

You’ve come back, but I no longer need you.

The door creaked the same as it once did,

but the air was colder, less forgiving,

as though the walls remembered the nights

I leaned against them, trembling,

waiting for your shadow to soften

into something kind.

I used to measure my days by the sound

of your name—

every breath I took was another letter

spilled across the quiet.

But I have lived through...