When You Were Everything

by Ashley Woodfolk

“If you love someone,” she says, “it’s always worth it…to try. You only get a few truly priceless people in your lifetime. You should fight like hell to hold on to them.”

but we both know the pain of feeling like we don’t matter to the person we love most—to these people who were supposed to be our everything.

mad at my mom for telling me to try, mad at myself for believing there was something bigger at work; for being so damn desperate. I’m pissed that I even entertained the idea of forgiveness for someone who had already given up on me, you know?”

I’d never done well with gray areas—with almosts and sometimes and maybes.

Men should be what they seem.