The Unspoken Backdrop — Jaded

Love is something
that makes us feel the happiest alive,
but it can lie.
When you think you’ve found someone,
yet you’re left trying to forget.
Days slip by,
and still, you miss them.
You sit in the past,
letting it mold your well-being.
What’s better in yourself?
Who you were then?
Nothing, actually.
Tell yourself you’re reborn.
Try to understand,
when our faults betray us
as we try,
caring too much,
the heart becomes bigger than our thoughts.
To those who try to help,
fighting not to push back:
you’ll return stronger.
Thoughts can crumble easily
when we listen to those who guide us.
But in truth,
the pain lingers.

“Underrated, not defined—bypassing the entire genre of prose and
literature. I’m still good at this level of life’s worth, though jaded
by the workings of trauma.”