one step at a time.

breathe breathe breathe

open your eyes

fuck

open your eyes

it's a hallway

but it's not just a hallway, you know?

there's someone at the end with hungry

hands, ready to hold my heart, clench

it with their dirty fingers.

there's a table with a fruit salad

on it; i told him that i was ready to

do this, swallow my fears one fucking

grape at a time.

i told him that i would stop counting

long enough to hear what lies he has to say.

tap tap tap

scuff

tap

inhale, exhale

the smell of coffee burns my nostrils.

i shouldn't be here with him in his

fucking break room talking about how

we belong together but i'm too fucking

broken to be in love like this.

but i am.

i'm here.

for him.

and i'm going.

one step at a time.

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