I Know Who You Are

by Alice Feeney

Sometimes it’s the people who love us the most that hurt us the hardest, because they can.

We weren’t always the version of us that we became. Life remodels relationships like the sea reshapes the sand; eroding dunes of love, building banks of hate.

You should always fight, especially when you think you are going to lose. That’s when you should fight the hardest.’

We’ve all got so busy staring down at our screens, that we’ve forgotten to look up at the stars.

Each walking, talking, thinking, feeling human star has its own planets revolving around it: parents, children, friends, lovers. Sometimes stars get too big, too hot, too dangerous, and the planets closest to them burn to oblivion. As I sit and stare at the galaxy of faces, trying to get from one place to another, I understand that it doesn’t matter who we are or what we do; we’re all the same. We are all just stars trying to shine in the darkness.