3am
It is in these moments we awaken from the fantasy of who we believed you could become. sweet, miserable dreams of fantasized potential and desperate hope.
We wake whispering your name into the darkness, searching for a presence that never exists. And it takes everything within us not to reach for you again, to not beg once more for love.
If not for the wounds of our childhood,
this cruelty would almost seem unreal.
But pain recognizes pain,
and so here, in the silence,
we whisper these unbearable truths
of love, longing, grief, and despair.
Te amo, mi amor.
Even now, the words bleed from us like a final prayer swallowed by the Void.