Writing Prompt

I envy children. Not for their joy, but for the way they cry without shame. Somewhere along the lines I learned to cry quietly—into pillows, in bathrooms. Now I can’t even cry in my father’s arms.

If only I had never let go....

I wish I had never let go

Let go of the life I once had

I wish I was still a kid

But now I’m facing the real world

I wish I could still hold on

Hold on to the only part of me that was happy

I wish I had never left

But my wishes never come true...

I wish I had never let go

but really I wish I never held on

you were the bane of my existence yet the reason I stay breathing

letting you go meant setting you free

though now I know it hurt you more than it did me.

I turned you into me, the one thing you hated most…

until you didn’t

you loved me

maybe too much and that’s why I broke the chain

I was scared of the retaliation once you realized all...

I wish I had never let your hand go,

Loosing grasp on you feels like I’m 7 again being dragged in the hall by my ankle to prevent me from living life normally your love the only reason my heart still beats in this chest waiting aching to grasp you again

Your thighs

Your love

It send me spiralling wanting craving desperately to hold you in my arms and consume how goddamn sexy you are

If only

If… o...

I wish i had never let go

resisting the urges to run back

stuck in a rhythm of immense desire

Without you my soul is on fire

Our first encounter unforeseen

Meeting you i’m no longer clean

Hooked in, You made me a fiend

Without you i feel incomplete

You showed me happiness

Pure deceit

Overwhelmed in your trance

Failing to ever advance

If only i never went France

Should have never taken t...

Cause you got everything you wanted

But it’s all too real

Everything is changing

Except what I feel

But he smiled when he saw me and that’s enough that’s enough

It’s like saying nothing when you are asked why you are smiling at your phone

It’s like dancing around when you are all alone

It’s like growing up but scared to grow old

That’s enough that’s enough

And I’ll walk past a thousand s...

Sometimes I feel like

I’m always playing catch up

With somebody else

And then sometimes I feel like I am

4 years ahead

Time flies by and slowly I

Start hating myself

And then for a week and couple days

I feel utterly content

Ignorance is bliss

Or so they say

But if I’m ignorant

How can I know if I’m truly normal, truly ok?

Sometimes I struggle

And wish I never let something go

But then I realize ...

I wish I had never let go.

Anxiety and fear beneath that many eyes can’t see.

The deceasing of one’s soul,

How did it become this way?

Why did I let go of what was good?

Despair of moments lost,

But it become easier as time went on.

Time flew by without a moment’s thought.

Becoming and losing apart of one self when it was thought it would be found.

Oh Alas! How life is short!

It truly was tru...

I wish I had never let go, I thought for what was probably the thousandth time since that moment. Cliff diving had seemed but a spur of the moment activity. Like a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. If I only knew I would’ve lost my best friend, my other half, my missing piece. She was ecstatic on the drive up the rocky mountain. Her knees eagerly bumped mine, her grin in sync with the tunes floating a...

I wish i had never let go.

The sound of the hospital whispered in my ears, it was so loud, yet so quiet. I could hear nurses talking and the beeping of the heart monitor next to me.

How did i end up here? The last thing i remember was hanging out with my girlfriend. It was probably the best night of my life.

We were drinking and having fun. I think there was a movie on the TV, we we...