When We Collided

by Emery Lord

Ships are safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for’?”

But each broken person is different, and there is no right way for everyone. Just a lot of wrong ways.

Really, it’s not fair to people who are struggling, to go on believing that everyone else just has it totally together and never has one bad thought in their lives.

Sometimes I think my heart is made of rubber, and the world stretches it and twists so that it writhes in my chest and aches. This is why I have spent most of my time on this planet

here but hurting.