Never

"I waited for you."

It touched me to see that under the rain and sun, someone wanted to walk with me. "You make me happy." I drowned in his whispers. The feeling pleasures me as the sweet echo lingers. "I know you can do it." As I struggle to believe that I can do something great, trust was a gold I could receive. "You are the best." I didn't mind plunging to rock bottom as he always lifts me to crest with his words of validation. I might have misheard somewhere was a similar voice with a similar face and a similar word choice. Recollect my broken pieces my hunger for touch my thirst for love— I was blinded so much. And I knew I misinterpreted the words of that one man. "You" was plural, general. I was not the only one.

Published in CPA Newsletter - July to December 2019 Volume