by Alexei Zwijacz

we have each other and sometimes we hate each other were the only ones we have
i spent christmas without my family for the first time this year and christmas eve without my best friend and her family
i feel empty and almost awful
but not quite because i don’t miss what they did to me
i don’t miss sitting and pretending all those things didn’t happen i don’t miss being the only one in the room with a working memory.