Thirteen Hours To You

For seventeen years I’d lived in Adalita, Pennsylvania.
A town that took pleasure in my torment,
and refused to leave me as anything but broken.

Four months ago, I left.
I drove thirteen hours to Everlee Falls, Georgia,
to live with my Gamma for senior year.
To give myself the chance to fall in love
with a life that I’d missed out on for far too long.

I was expecting to find hope,
I was hoping to find freedom,
but I never expected him.
I was too damaged to recognize the beginning.

But all it takes is a moment,
and he was positive he’d invade every one of mine.
If I pushed, he pulled. If I ran, he followed.

I was his fate.
Meekai was my north star.
I was what he chose to remember,
he was a goodbye my soul refused to forget⠀
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*Trigger Warning: Please be warned, this duet includes scenes of sexual assault and sensitive subject matter.⠀⠀⠀⠀
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