Make Me Hate You

by Kandi Steiner

“This is me saying that I would set myself on fire to bring light to all of the dark places within you.” – Beau Taplin

He and I, we weren’t just here and now. We were the past, the present, the future. We were other worlds and other universes, too.

didn’t shed another tear. I smiled for what we had. And I promised myself to let go of what we never would.

“I came to get my girl.”