How many loves do you get in a lifetime? For me it’s just the one. I’ve had more but as I float away there’s only one I’m thinking of. He is what I’m thinking of. Not how he hurt me, not what he did to me, not what we’ve done to each other. Just him. How his hair falls on his face, the dip in his top lip, how his mouth parts when he’s thinking, the freckle on the right side of his mouth, the shape of his nose. I trace his jawline in my mind, count the colours in his eyes. I feel sad for the splittest of seconds because I always kind of thought they’d be the last things I’d see here on earth,
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