Things I Learned in the Night

by Emily Byrnes

(There’s a reason you’re here. There is meaning in your journey. There is recovery. There are better brain days. There are fewer tears. There are smiles that aren’t so forced. There is happiness. Believe that.)

Please don’t blame me for running; the universe has lit so many fires under my feet I’ve been conditioned to flee at the sign of a spark.

We grew up we grew apart because forever is so easy at eighteen and so easy to forget by twenty three.