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Dear Friend,
every time i escape the jungle, the lions grab me by the neck and drag me back in.
the pain the surges through my body, is numbed by the idea that i can erase the pass and start over with you. you were there for me when i needed you, then when i needed you most you slipped through my fingers like a black balloon.
you hated what i was, the person you couldn't, you strike me where it hurt and returned for me when i was down, kicking me in the gut.. knocking the air of me and had me gasping for last breathe. then wisped away from a different wind and left you behind in the pit of our last fight.
you come back in a different form, hurt, grieving.. your heart torn out. you lose the one thing we talked about as child, and now you realize that we had an bond that we once thought was unbreakable.. now we look back and realize that was unrealistic. the children we were hadn't lives life, gone through the strain of love, heartache and loss, now we come back to meet once again, almost as stranger unsure where we stand with each other.
you were like a sister that i never had and i lose that sister, it feels like years and the truth it was only months ago. we slept in the same bed, read each others minds without speaking, spent everyday together.. and it all come to a crashing end because you had changed because of your reasons, and i did the same. our new lives didn't workout together, they were opposites and we couldn't understand why we had grown apart.
i wish we could go back in time and change the past but if we did that we wouldn't be the woman we are today. yes, in months i became a woman from a naive child. the months that passed were hard and stressful, but clearly not as much as yours.
we spoke today, and at first i was angry and didn't know what to say to you without scream at the top of my lungs. then realized that shouts or swears wouldn't do us any good. the sun wouldn't come out the same way if we did that, and you made me cry because i missed the old life i had when i was a child and your were there for me. the tears are a mesh of pain and happiness, the pain came from knowing that we will never be the start and we wouldn't be able to start from scratch because of the mistakes we made, the happiness came from knowing that we were going to be okay, move on with our lives and make the best of them and be successful.
as the tears stream down my face and wet my shirt is just a way of cleansing my body of all the past shit and welcoming the healing and success that will come my way, God willing, we will make it through this.
i will always have a space in my heart for you, and i hope you will have the same.
Yours Truly,
India Antoine.