What We Keep

by Jennifer Millikin

True loneliness isn’t being alone. It’s being with someone else and still finding yourself alone.

You can slay dragons with your words.”

Bad decisions are not the property of bad people.

This woman. She is a part of me, an extension, to a point where I cannot tell where I end and she begins.

“Content. Like I’ve been treading water for a long time, and I’ve finally reached land.”

Real love demands we strip ourselves, and bare our souls. It is a vulnerable, messy affair, and nobody escapes unscathed.