We Are Okay

by Nina LaCour

I know that I am always alone, even when surrounded by people, so I let the emptiness in.

You think you need all of it. Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.

If our past selves got a glimpse of us now, what would they make of us?

All it would have taken was one word from you and I wouldn’t have gone. I would have waited longer, but you shut me out,”

“These are all things that change a person. If we endure them and we aren’t changed, then something is wrong.