I am dust

How do you learn to love?

I read about this crazy feeling.

I read stories about people wrecked by loss.

I see sacrifice, witness surrender.

I wonder why. What drives these people?

What does it mean to love another?

How do I learn to care?

How do you unwind betrayal?

How many times do you repair rejections?

What does it take to make you dare?

Dare to be vulnerable, dare to take risks?

How do I face the next abandonment?

How do I ever learn to trust?

How do I go on in a house filled with silence?

Where carefree laughter echoed daily?

How do I answer, what do I say?

When someone says “I love you”

What do they mean? What do they feel?

How do I respond to heartfelt feelings

When I am at best a hollow shell?

I am broken. I am dust