Over the last year, my circle tightened. Not by choice, but by necessity.
It's strange how a year can feel heavy without feeling dark.
How it can stretch you.
Strip things away.
Force you to see what you didn't want to see.
I thought I was imaginng things at fist.
I told myself I was overreacting.
Too sensitive.
Too watchful.
But I wasn't.
The small betrayals. The sideways glances. I kept thinking I was paranoid.
But I wasn't.
And that might be the real tragedy.
To know what's coming.
To feel it the way you feel a truck on the road before you hear it.
A vibration.
A warning.
A weight gathering speed.
You stand there anyway.
Not frozen.
Just honest.
Because part of you already knows how it ends.
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