Jayni Cole
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the average nobody with a heart full of poems and a story or two trying to claw their way out.
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True love is one of those rare, once-in-a-lifetime phenomena that leaves its host completely whole and enlightened when all goes right, but desolate and starved, emaciated, when all goes wrong. Like stars in the sky that burn and fall while millions more hang in the sky.
By Jayni Cole13 days ago in Chapters
The Shape of Wanting
Chapter 1 — The Return She recognizes him before he even looks at her. It isn’t his face. It’s the way he holds himself, like he’s waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like whatever comes next is never quite his choice. She traces his outline without hesitation, like a cartographer redrawing her most often copied map. The gently setting December sun blacks out most of his features, but the shape of him causes a familiar grip to tighten around her heart.
By Jayni Cole13 days ago in Chapters
The Letter I'll Never Send
I'll never tell you, but deep down in the furthest corner of my heart, I keep a flame alive for you. In the version of things that I tell myself (to prevent from feeling the devastating loss of that flame going out) I say that you pushed me away to protect yourself. I say that all you've known is loss and pain and that your nervous system can't handle having me back. I tell myself that we both know now is not the right time, and that your abandonment only happened because you wanted to protect the last bit of flame you still hold for me. I say that you're holding that flame the way I'm holding mine, in secret hopes that one day we can hold each others hearts without breaking them. We've both been too clumsy with each others glass hearts, and we're paying for that right now.
By Jayni Coleabout a month ago in Confessions
Anthology of A Fractured Heart
The end of it all is a silent acceptance, or flipping of a switch to suppress the storm. At some point, the storm that doesn't leave you ends up calling you it's home and finding secret places to hide and devour your heart one beat at a time.
By Jayni Coleabout a month ago in Poets
