Beyond Worthy

by Jacqueline Whitney

You don’t need a lover to survive. You won’t be lonely forever.

Even when you look back, you still look forward. When you say goodbye, you’re still always there. You don’t give up on people even when over and over again people are giving up on you.

This is how I find healing. I fall apart into my words. I sit down with my crying soul and fall apart. I force my shaking hands to type and wipe away my tears. I cannot heal unless I open. I must open my pain into the formation of words. This is the only way I know how to be okay. I fall into myself, I fall into my keyboard, because I know I’ll be okay. You must fall apart to heal your heart.

but every time you survive you are always supposed to survive

The ocean reminds me my heart is a moon, the gravity that pulls my emotions further or closer to my shore, my serenity.