Still Beating

by Jennifer Hartmann

“I think we could have been the best thing to ever happen to me.”

The things I want are disguised in deadly traps, and yet, I’m still tempted.”

You can’t tiptoe around your heart in fear of pissing people off or hurting their feelings. Sometimes we need to be a little selfish in order to avoid a life of complacency.”

Everyone is a little selfish sometimes when it comes to matters of the heart.”

I need this. I need him. He’s the only calm to my madness, the only light to my dark, the only sweet to my bitter remains.

as long as my heart is still beating, I’m okay. It’s a reminder when things get hard.”

and sometimes it’s because the universe throws you a curveball, forcing you in a direction you never saw coming.

There’s no shame in the struggle, but you can’t stay there forever.

We can’t give our heart to another without loving our own first.