"But it was just different when you were here.Like the distance that was put between usmade us more..."

“But it was just different when you were here.

Like the distance that was put between us

made us more durable, more eager

to wait out the months before us, because soon

we would be together and everything before,

everything that made us want to change,

made us want to reinvent ourselves to be

someone who we could look back on and feel

proud of, never mattered. None of that

would ever break us because we were always

so much stronger than our regretful past.

But there is something about staring your hopes

in the eye and coming face to face

with all that you wished for. There was

something so bittersweet about you finally

being in my reach. Like all the time that we

waited through was just a test to show us

that not everything is as euphoric as it seemed.”

- Colleen Brown