I deserve every drop of poison I am fed, and my shield of indifference does not reflect how I crumble inside like stale bread. The butter substitute I am given at home does not piece me back together, and I am left a beating void.

You are just a speck of ash in a hellfire so old no one remembers it.

I chose to honor myself by promising I would never go back. The true depth of my hollowness came into full view the minute I closed that window only to look back through it from a safe distance.

Do they know you have an Emmy award

for outstanding lead actress in a drama

series and that I played a supporting role?

They called it Codependency.

Came up from the ground a lethal weed

so they'd watch their garden become my paradise