Never Always Sometimes

by Adi Alsaid

was strange how he could see her every day and still be surprised by how it felt to have her near.

He kept smiling, too experienced at hiding to let the tiny heartbreak show.

There was love in the way she looked at him. Maybe not the particular shade of love that would suit him best, but he’d be a fool not to take as much of it as he could

the best you can ever do is to leave the world a little better than you found it.

This was how she could love Dave. From exactly this distance. Within sight but apart. Cheering him on, providing whatever happiness she could provide for him. As his best friend.

Julia knew that there were moments in your life that meant something but passed by unnoticed, and she knew that this was not one of them.

After so long of dreaming about it, it should have been a disappointment. His expectations, never reined in, had climbed so high that reality should not have been able to live up to the moment. The mind got carried away and life’s job was to show it how things really were.

I will get lonely and gasp for air, and send your name off from my lips like a signal flare,

People were always belittling teenage heartbreak. But heartbreak was heartbreak was heartbreak.

We like to think we’re formulas that even out exactly, that we are perfect matches with each other. But we’re not. We match up with lots of people, more or less.”