Emjay

“Sometimes I almost go hours without crying,
Then I feel if I don't, I'll go insane.
It can seem her whole life was her dying.

She tried so hard, then she tired of trying;
Now I'm tired, too, of trying to explain.
Sometimes I almost go hours without crying.

The anxiety, the rage, the denying;
Though I never blamed her for my pain,
It can seem her whole life was her dying.

And mine was struggling to save her; prying,
Conniving: it was the chemistry in her brain.
Sometimes I almost go hours without crying.

If I said she was easy, I'd be lying;
The lens between her and the world was stained:
It can seem her whole life was her dying.

But the fact, the fact, is stupefying:
Her absence tears at me like a chain.
Sometimes I almost go hours without crying.
It can seem her whole life was her dying.

- Villanelle for a Suicide's Mother”
― C.K. Williams, Villanelles

“Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.”
― Rich Shapero, The Hope We Seek

“Tired is a feeling.
Lazy is a behavior.
Don't confuse the two.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The only comfort I found was in planning to disappear.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir