Another life

By Vrischika Kotak

don’t get me wrong, i could’ve loved you in another life, i think that maybe i did. i think that maybe we did get things right, that maybe we slow danced in the rain at midnight and we ran through sunflower fields in broad daylight. i loved you in another life because i cannot love you in this one.

right now, i want to leave, i’ve known you for a thousand years, and yet somehow, you only feel as close as a stranger i met at a coffee shop. my heart feels heavy on this cold november night , there are a million voices piercing my mind and i have never felt more empty inside. i am leaving because i am tired of trying, of thinking of what could’ve been. i cannot love you without my sadness and i do not know how to love you without leaving (i'm sorry).

By Vrischika Kotak