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Nomshu Writes✨ Nigeria
Student, Artist and Writer @ Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
In Literature, Writing and Blogging 3 min read
UNBREAK MY HEART ❤️✨
<p>Hear me out.</p><p>No really.</p><p>Before you judge me, before you call it dramatic, before you call me too much.</p><p>Listen to “Un-break my heart… by Tony Braxton ” while you read this.</p><p>Let it loop in your head.</p><p>Let it ache.</p><p>Because that is how I love.</p><p>I don’t love in halves.</p><p>I don’t love in moderation.</p><p>My brain doesn’t have a dimmer switch it’s either fluorescent obsession or complete darkness.</p><p>And when you loved me, it was the first time the noise quieted.</p><p>You don’t understand what that means.</p><p>My mind is a room with too many radios playing at once.</p><p>Memories interrupt each other.</p><p>Feelings overlap.</p><p>Sadness sits in the corner like a permanent resident who forgot to leave years ago.</p><p>But you </p><p>you were a single frequency.</p><p>Clear.</p><p>Loud.</p><p>Addicting.</p><p>I hyperfocused on you the way other girls hyperfocus on hobbies.</p><p>Your laugh.</p><p>The way your jaw tensed when you were angry.</p><p>The exact time you stopped texting back that night 11:37 p.m. I remember because I replay it like a scratched record.</p><p>You were not just love.</p><p>You were stimulation.</p><p>You were dopamine.</p><p>You were proof that I could feel something other than exhaustion.</p><p>And maybe that wasn’t fair to you.</p><p>But you said you loved me.</p><p>Do you know what that does to a girl who already feels like she’s too loud, too scattered, too heavy to hold?</p><p>It feels like oxygen.</p><p>So when you pulled away slowly, subtly, cruelly </p><p>my mind did what it does best.</p><p>It spiraled.</p><p>Was I too much?</p><p>Too sad?</p><p>Too distracted?</p><p>Too intense?</p><p>Did I text too often?</p><p>Not enough?</p><p>Did you get bored?</p><p>Did you ever really love me or did you just like being needed?</p><p>I replayed every conversation like evidence in a trial where I am both the criminal and the judge.</p><p>Depression tells me I ruin everything.</p><p>ADHD tells me to obsess over how.</p><p>And somewhere between those two voices, your absence grew teeth.</p><p>You broke my heart in a quiet way.</p><p>Not with shouting.</p><p>Not with betrayal.</p><p>But with distance.</p><p>And distance is the cruelest thing you can give someone who already lives inside her own head.</p><p>Now my mind is loud again.</p><p>Too loud.</p><p>And I hate that I would still choose you.</p><p>I hate that if you walked back in and said, “I love you,”</p><p>my brain would light up like a city after a blackout.</p><p>Because loving you felt like purpose.</p><p>Like direction.</p><p>Like all my scattered thoughts had somewhere to land.</p><p>So unbreak my heart.</p><p>Say you love me again even if it’s reckless.</p><p>Even if it’s wrong.</p><p>Even if it ruins me twice.</p><p>Because being shattered by you felt better</p><p>than being numb alone.</p><p>And maybe that’s the most dangerous thing about me.</p><p>I don’t fear the storm.</p><p>I fear the silence after it leaves.</p>

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