When We Left Cuba

by Chanel Cleeton

I am somewhere between the girl I was and the woman I want to be.

No one tells you with the right man it can feel like heaven; in the right moment, it can make you feel more powerful than you ever imagined.

Things happen the way they are supposed to, the seemingly insignificant moments stringing together to lead you down a path you never imagined traversing,

Dreams never die all at once. They die in pieces, floating a little farther and farther away each day.