Your brain starts to play tricks. You know?
I do love you, Kristina.
You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure.
You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from.
You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see.
You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.
Be safe. Be smart. Stay you.
Adam
Why Was Everyone
suddenly worried
about my IQ?
I sank into my
down
pillow-top,
reread every word
twenty times, right
down
to his signature.
Adam had a poet’s soul.
I put the letter
down
and considered crying,
wondering how loving
him could bring me
so far down,
wondering how to stop
loving him, wondering
if the monster would soon
let me come down.
I Did Cry Then