…4 yrs and 3 minutes
…one hasn’t called in 4 years-
and when the other does, they have 3 minutes, so i must be quick-
did i not love deep enough?
i wasn’t perfect- but i never hit them- never paraded the home with men- hell, i didn’t even use the word ‘shut up’-
but somewhere i failed-
somewhere i did-
so i cling close to my last, almost too close- because i am afraid to have been cut open four times, and be left in a world without even one.
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