I’ve been wondering what love real means.

Does it mean you get a person who will understand you for who you are?

Does it mean you get to unpack everything?

The sorrow, the loneliness, the betrayals and the sadness?

Letter to a Recent Ex

A final gesture of love. “Marie” is his ex-wife. Six months into our relationship, he moved cross continent. We ended our relationship six months after the move.

Dear One,

I’m into you, Ranjit

I love you

And totally cool if it’s not mutual.

Just thought you should know, because sometimes, later, it’s reciprocal.

I was certain by mid-third year in coll. I could tell.
Knowing you since school…this…

I told you before I would wait, and I will.

I would like to have a conversation with you. I know you are busy so when you have time. — You

I waited to answer this. I had been waiting for what felt like an entertinty for that text, but part of me didn’t want it to come…

Letter 19

Dear You,

Brace yourself, this one isn’t going to be eloquent. I am so overwhelmed. I am crying as I write this because I just feel so much. I am sad for anyone that may never know love like ours. An old man on a movie said, “Everybody struggles, it’s just a matter of finding the…

Letter 18

Dear You,

I thought you should know, I have worn my seat belt every single day since we met. That’s 41 days, I counted, twice. Is that it? I feel like I have known you forever. Maybe it just seems longer, because they days before you were in a hurry to get to you, and once they…

Goodbye.

Tonight I’ll rest my wings.

I’ll sing your favourite tune.

Write the perfect words.

Give back what I took-

For the time has come for the last goodbye.