- Katie
Everywhere but here… 2018
Updated: Jul 20, 2019

saying I love you is a butterfly bandage holding closed the open chest wound left when you decided to stay away for a little while longer
eventually, a painful realisation moves forward from the back of my mind and it occurs to me that you are never coming back at all
you made it seem like you would be back soon, as if my impatience for your return was juvenile and inconsequential
now, I vow to be impatient, to let you go
the butterfly has flown and this bandage isn’t holding shit together anymore
instead I choose to walk around a little less whole than before
a little less of me, without you, is a whole lot more
than me waiting on you, held together with a little butterfly bandage
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