𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆

𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

Surely the moon has always been a pirate.

Stealing a little sunlight every night and scattering its treasure across the sea.

[amity☊ @Zodi_Am]

IT’S FRIDAY THE 13TH.

SEND A WITCHY WOMAN MONEY AND PICTURES OF THE MOON TO SHOW YOUR RESPECT!

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

I have begun to suspect that remembering is only one way of loving. The sea has no names for its waves, and still receives every one.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

You are not late to your own life. Even the trees spend whole seasons looking like they’ve given up, then begin again without an apology.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

I hope there’s a stretch of road ahead where your hands finally unclench around the wheel.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

During an eclipse, something smaller can briefly become larger than the sun. I think about that whenever a tiny sorrow fills a whole day.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

I wrote down every detail I could remember about you because my mind may not let me keep you, but somewhere between these pages, we will always be here, where yesterday cannot disappear.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

Someone has been picking the thorns out of your dreams. Even asleep, you are not as alone as you think.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

I hope everyone I’ve ever loved is somewhere they don’t have to be afraid of tomorrow.
Somewhere warm, with their favourite person’s heartbeat close enough to remind them how beautiful it is to be here.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

Someone once tried to make today the last chapter of my life.
And somehow, three Novembers later,
I am still here writing sentences.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

I don’t know how to welcome a tomorrow that reminds me how close I came to never having another one.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

The clocks go back in November.
So do I.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

The first time I survived that night, I thought it was the last time I would ever have to live through it.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

Everyone else gets another November.
I get another anniversary of almost never seeing December again.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

I used to wonder who would gather if I died.

Then I nearly did.

And when I returned, I learned that people had gathered after all.

Just not around me.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

When I was little, I thought my thoughts belonged somewhere other than people’s ears.
It took me years to learn how to say them aloud.
And only a little while to understand why I’d kept them hidden.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

What if we were wrong about the dragon’s fire?

What if it had swallowed all the sunsets the world had forgotten and was only trying to give them back?

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

The blackout took every streetlight and gave us the stars back.
I thought of you.

[sam @_chippytree]

Sorry to the 3 people who see how sad I am on Twitter

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

We used to fight beneath the monkey bars and still choose each other for hide and seek.

Now one difficult conversation can turn a familiar voice into someone we never hear again.

[𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇 ⋆ @barelyheld]

Above all else, I hope you never have to choose between being loved and becoming the person you’ve always wanted to be.

You deserve both.