From Our Readers: The Definitive Guide to Moving On (From Heartbreak)

Weep, sleep, and cry some more,
before courage taps on your
window pane like birds do
in the early mornings,
to wake you gently from the
nightmare of it all when it knows
it is time to.

Then pick yourself up and feel
your whole body help you do so
as you face the mirror without
the moist of it blinding.
Embrace yourself and say
with a trembling voice,
that this is your world and it is
all yours for now.
The spaces will be filled with you
that no cracks exist to even
let him enter.

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