& You Will Write

You're going to learn that in life you will have cuts you cannot stitch together. You will just have to keep replacing the bloody bandages your whole life. It will be less about making it in the world and more about making it through the night. There are people who will love you and people who will hurt you more than you ever thought you could forget, but in time, you will move on. It will be so bittersweet. You will one day learn that it is only survival to move on. However, there will be some people you will never be able to forget. No matter the time, no matter the distance or reason. Like walking on splintering wood, you will carry pieces of them in you, and you may forget that it's there. But sometimes it will ache so bad that you try and try to dig under your skin to figure out just what keeps hurting.

You will write and you will sing. Your own words and voice will have a particular distaste to you. The hurt you feel inside and the desire to fix it will crash together like ceramic plates on a wooden floor. No matter how hard you try to put the blame on one another, it is nobody's fault the plates will fall.

You will be wrong. And you will think, and believe, that you are right. You will still be wrong.

And you will write.

You will write.

You will write.

I hope above all the splintering and all the shattering, that you will write.