"I thought getting over you would be hard.And it was.It was months of spitting out wordslike..."

“I thought getting over you would be hard.

And it was.

It was months of spitting out words

like scarves in a magic act:

all those things you taught me to say

that I never really believed.

I was such a good rabbit, wasn’t I?

You could keep me tucked under your hat

the entire show.

.

I thought I would love you forever:

that your name would follow me

like a criminal record.

I thought everyone who ever touched me

would be able to to feel you breathing

just beneath my skin.

.

I thought I had been scarred by you,

never realizing that it was a still open wound

I kept picking the scab off of.

.

These days, I don’t think about you for months at a time.

You mean nothing more than a bad time in my life,

and I got better.

.

See, you were the one who fucked me up,

but I was the one who put myself together.”

- I Don’t Owe Anything To You, by Ashe Vernon