"The sun is shining so brightbut you keep all your blinds closed.You don’t touch..."

“The sun is shining so bright

but you keep all your blinds closed.

You don’t touch your breakfast 

even after it took you an hour to make.

You felt hungry at first, but when the food

was on the plate before you, you lost your appetite.

Everything reminds you of them;

things, songs, but mostly places.

You don’t want to leave your house

but your room still smells like their love.

It takes you hours to put yourself together,

to shower, to find an outfit and the energy

to start your car and leave the driveway.

Every place that you drive past reminds you

of them. The park where you first kissed,

the sidewalk where they first held your hand

in public, the coffee shop where they told you

you were the only one. You keep telling yourself

that tomorrow will be better, that it will feel better.

That today is meant to be spent aching over reminders

and reassuring yourself that you did the right thing.”

- “The day after the break-up,” - Colleen Brown