Isn’t it crazy how in a single moment

Everything you’ve ever known can just disappear?

One second the one you love can be sitting there in front of you

Then boom

Gone.

And in that small moment

It can feel like a lifetime.

You can feel your heart shatter

Glass shards, dripping with blood, piercing your chest at every angle.

You can feel your mind spin in circles

Every second of every memory flashing in blinding vivacity before your eyes

You can feel your lungs collapse and your ribcage turn to rubber

You can feel your stomach turn itself inside out then creep up and out of your throat.

In that small moment

Your entire world can come crashing around you

A single second and you can go from sitting comfortable and happy

And safe.

Thinking you have it all.

Next thing you know you’re standing in the very ashes of the one thing you cherish most

How do you deal with that?

In that small moment

When the person who was supposed to stay

Leaves.

And everything you were holding onto is ripped from your grasp

What do you do?

Do you force yourself to move on?

Pick yourself up and wipe off the blood and mud like it never happened?

Or do you force yourself to deal,

Just to end up right back where you started.