I saw you standing there

In the far corner of my room.

I lay in my bed, eyes shut tight

Feeling nothing, and everything, all at once.
When I finally opened my eyes,

they were wet.

I had cried in silence,
tears spilling from a place too deep to name.
Inside, I knew I was broken.

Yet I refused the help offered,

choosing instead to dwell in sadness,

to embrace the bitterness fully.
My feelings turned lackluster,

my mind blank,

still clinging to the past
I’m not yet ready to release.