No. 13 ·
there is a kind of longing that only comes from having once held the thing.
you can't miss a place you never lived in. you can't ache for a voice that never said your name. the deepest wanting is usually a memory dressed up as a wish.
that is what makes it so hard to resist. it sings you back to a room you already stood in, a life you already lived, and promises it can all be yours again if you just turn toward it.
it can't. the door is still there, but the room behind it changed the day you walked out.
so you tie yourself down, and you listen, and you let it hurt, and you keep sailing, what good is life without sacrifice?