[Undone 04] • Fractured Hope

Emptiness was my constant companion.

Grief was all I knew. Loneliness was all I felt.

Life beat me down. The punches kept coming.

I existed. Didn’t really live.

Then he came into my life.

Roman.

He was like a battering ram with a silver tongue.

But for the first time in so long, I felt something.

I felt everything.

Peace.

Cared for.

Hope.

But hope led only to disappointment.

* * *

Loss.

Simple. Complicated. Life Altering.

I lived alone, consumed by everything I no longer possessed.

I had nothing to live for.

Mia woke something inside me I thought died long ago.

There was finally someone to share my life.

This was a dream I’d relinquished long ago.

She stirred emotion that I tried to fight,

But I wanted her.

Needed her.

I felt I had something to live for.

But hope was a liability I couldn’t afford.