Fair Catch

by Kandi Steiner

It didn’t matter that one day it all would have to end, that one day I’d have to go through withdrawals and peel myself off the floor.

“I don’t want to pretend that I’m not yours in every way there is to belong to someone, that I don’t yearn for you to be mine in the same way. I don’t want to hide. I don’t want to keep having my heart fucking demolished at the thought of this all ending at any minute.”

It didn’t matter how my heart broke, how my soul yearned for the one person responsible for the pain I was in to take it away.

And even if you hate me for the rest of your life, I need you to know that I love you.