If you're bleeding,

it means you've been hurt.

Not a scratch-on-the-skin kind of hurt—

the kind that sits in your chest

and doesn’t go away.

That kind of pain

usually comes from someone

you let get close.

If they hurt you,

it means you trusted them.

You don’t feel betrayed by strangers.

And if you trusted them,

it means you cared—

really cared.

You only care that deeply

when love is involved.

Even if it ended badly,

the love was real.

You trusted because you cared.

You cared because you loved.

And love, even when it wrecks you,

is still beautiful.

You’re bleeding

because you loved deeply.

This is how bleeding leads to beauty.