![]() Movies and books also don’t tell you that friendships don’t just end after one fight or incident, it’s like the rusting of a bridge, the slow decay of flesh and bones and secrets. Seeing her in streets is like breathing in a scent you forgot you knew but it immediately takes you back to a summer in ‘07. We were friends for a decade and knew each other’s diaries by heart, I still remember her phone number and the way she took her coffee. ![]() Movies and books don’t tell you that a friendship dying is like the sinking of a ship, you try to get higher and higher and hold onto the rails and unanswered texts, the captain tries to steer it to safety and salvage pieces of two broken hearts until you’re left with memories of what once was. I lost my best friend 3 years ago- not lost as in dead but lost as in we only text each other on our birthdays now. Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned Pinned Post ritika jyala the flesh i burned aesthetic art hozier poetry dark acadamia aesthetic lofi literature history quotes poets on tumblr dark academia light academia chaotic academia romantic academia writeblr studyblr desiblr female artists artists on tumblr lovecore cottagecore film movies jane austen franz kafka poem photography marvel I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.Įdit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here ![]() And I know on some days you won’t be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don’t talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom’s burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. There’ll be a moment when you realise you’re 27 when yesterday you were just 17 and you wouldn’t be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. ![]()
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