more season three spencer bc he makes me wanna sob my eyes out!! cool!
m.edwards // quote by sue zhao // as it was - harry styles // i wrote this for you by lain s. thomas // november for beginners by rita dove // βseizureβ by louise glΓΌck // right where you left me - taylor swift // quote by evelyn waugh // the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood
Stained glass π
I know my sadness will pass if I do not cling to it so tightly
@heavensghost / there are so many ghosts at my spot - karmin verdi / no choir - florence + the machine / a softer world / ? / Holly Warburton/ @teashoesandhair / ? / Faces in the Crowd - Luiselli (tr. MacSweeney)
I imagine a different life and know it could not exist, know it is incomparable, and consider it anyway.
There is a life in which I finish the chemistry lesson without interruption. I celebrate Christmas, my 12th birthday, and I see my dad again. In another life I meet him as an adult with knowledge and perspective. Maybe we talk, maybe we donβt. He would be alive. Anger fades at the sound of a beating heart. It is enough. I tell him I missed him, he asks what for. He says heβs sorry, and I am too. We laugh or argue and in both I hear his voice, so old and new. I would know him. He knows me. Both chairs are warm, and mirrored eyes are no longer alone. Heβs there and itβs real, and heβs not as tall as I remembered.
Empathy stands on a mountain of grief; childhood by the lake. He reanimates. His hair, his eyes, an unharmed body. The words are mine. And he is not him. He exists as I tell him, his life in my hands, and as memory fails his image shifts. I will never remember as much as I wish I could.
In this life I wake up and he is still dead. His eyes are unblinking, his ashes are cold. His voice is faint. I shake her brain to remember again and she is a child and she is scared. I hold her and I am me. Seven years are infinite and small. My dad scatters, fragmented and whole. And where he does not, grief remains.
In a life where anything can be heard, I tell him I love him, and he knows.
Poetry, art, occasional Harringrove 3 - all of my fandoms haunt me - she/her - bi - libra - 19 - ππ
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