────୨ৎ──── n o t e ────୨ৎ──── I wrote this poetry collection in 2024, where I was dealing with a quite toxic relationship, being eaten away by guilt and pain — and the only way I had to cope was writing. I have thousands-of-words-long poetry documents I wrote from March to June, and as I was going through them, this one stood out the most to me. Now, when I write poetry, I write it in a more “flowery” kind of way, walking around the truth, but I think there’s beauty to the simplicity and straightforwardness of this past me. There is the pure, burning reds — the love, me trying to hold on, her pain making me drown too, the way I lost myself somewhere along the way. I didn’t edit anything from the original poetry collection except some song lyrics I had written in the dance-floor poem. If I could tell one thing to the girl who wrote this poem, it would be: it’s ok to let go if it hurts to stay, even when you really think you can’t, and I don’t think you’re a bad person. ────୨ৎ──── c r e d i t s ────୨ৎ──── ❤︎ Design, writing: @BewitchedMisty (me <3)
