Goodbye Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day!!!  We fly out of here with a one-way ticket….no return, no changing minds, no turning back….  it’s one-way, baby!  Scary and exhilarating.  I will cry.  Good-byes are in the realm of unbearable for me…literally.  I often find I’d rather be rude and avoid people than ever say good-bye.  I’m not even good at saying good-bye to the people I don’t like!  I just detest good-byes!  Typically, I avoid them like the plague…

There is no avoiding tomorrow…  Which means there will be crying, sobbing, heaving, the embarrassing kind of tears…the “OMG Dave and I broke up” kinda crying probably…ewww! 

I returned DK’s clothes I’ve had for a while.  I wouldn’t want the next ridiculous accusation to be that I’m a thief.  Sadly, that’s not even an absurd or paranoid fear with the way he bashes my character.  Crazy to realize that after hitting the best of the best and the worst of the worst, the man has zero feelings for me at all.  After all the nights he came running to me, crying and sighing, full of words he couldn’t get out, as well as words he never should have let out.  After it all, there is nothing.  Empty.  Void.  Zero.  Nada. 

I thought of keeping his clothes out of spite even, but realized I just don’t want them and he does, so why not take the high road?  It’s not as if keeping a few articles of his favorite clothing would ever compensate for all the cruel damage he’s done anyway…and it would mostly just serve to make me feel petty and small.  So, I dropped them at his house when he wasn’t home..nor was the new “bi-annual flavor of the month” there either. 

Strangely, I don’t wish him ill.  I almost wish I did or could, but I just don’t.  I even sometimes have little prayers and hopes that perhaps this is finally  “the one” for him..this latest strange car parked at his house down the street from my soon-to-be old house.  Perhaps this is the happiness he needed, minus any inconveniences or challenges which I represented to him after all the years and tears?  The mean part of me wants to hope he just gets what he’s dished out to me for so long – cruelty.  But, my heart would ache to think of him hurting even a moment the way he’s hurt me.  I don’t know if that makes me strong or just plain stupid..but  I’m leaning toward the “stupid” answer.

I’ll never know how someone could be and do so much good (and horrible) in my life and then just be absolutely nothing.  The two just contradict themselves.  I feel as though this sets a low-level of importance on anything.  As though the most wondrous of experiences and feelings will always be significantly lessened in my mind and heart because maybe someday that very thing will merely be a void of anything, like this whole experience was.  If anyone had ever tried to tell me that I would be literally nothing to the man who loved me so much he cried, I would have laughed at the ridiculous thought alone and been certain as I’ve been of nothing in my life, but certain that it all meant something significant.

Nope. It all was merely nothing.  Every tear, every effort, every cruelty I allowed hoping it would make things even again, hoping it would open his heart back up, hoping we could at least have a friendship…..all for nothing.  It feels as though I’m so dispensable and worthless that not even a shred of emotion, good OR bad, can be mustered up on behalf of it ALL….that just feels “off” to me…impossible actually…and yet it’s totally possible and realistic today.

And I wonder if I’ll ever bother to waste a tear, an emotion, much less an effort on any other person who claims to love me?  After all, if it’s possible to just mean nothing as though it never was or happened, then why would one ever waste even a moment on such trivial, useless-ness?   Seems pretty silly really…

And I think to myself that either he really IS a sociopath (that’s a hurtful hard thought really) or I am just a crazy person (always a possibility).  All I know is that this feels like I’m having to realize that one plus one does not equal two, macaroni does not go well with cheese, and french fries are not commonly eaten with ketchup.  Feels as though the whole world is not what I once knew; as though nothing at all is what I’ve ever thought.  It’s almost more upside down and confused than the day we broke up.  I knew he cared and I at least knew why we split.  This though…this makes no sense whatsoever.

Radical acceptance here that the grass is orange and the sky is green.  Nothing is was or will be what it seems….  I can only hope that this realization will keep things in perspective for me from here on out and I’m never again tempted  to place value (much less such precious value) on such trifling and trivial matters as this has apparently been.

What a lesson!

Why NOT play Kick-the-Carcass?

No consecutive hours of sleep for what seems like weeks, although I can easily remember not so long ago when it had been more like months, so I logically know I can pull through this “short stretch”.  However, when n the midst of the sleeplessness, it feels as though I’ll pass out, die, or just maybe snap into forgettable pieces.  I keep reminding myself that it’s been worse and try to be grateful for the little bits of sleep I do get blessed with.

Stressing the move, finances, the gossip and lies (of course, as usual), THE ex, the children, packing, moving across the entire country from everything I’ve ever known, living out of district for my kids’ school out west, my ex husband, and his motives and choices, and how they’re going to relate and affect our lives out there, so far from the only  home we’ve ever known.

With all of this, I’m struck hard with acute awareness of the severe alteration of my heart, my perspective,  my very essence…  Who I once was is gone, with all that’s happening now and all I am responsible to be and do, with all the fears that are hanging just over my head like a shark’s mouth ready to swallow me whole, I really just want to sit down and bawl myself sick.  Grief hangs all around me like buzzards and flies on a  carcass.  I know, I know…  This is nothing new…I’ve been a barely-breathing carcass for years now, my only traceable movement being the slight shakes and involuntary shuffles and slides  of a dead body that’s being kicked a few extra times for good measure.  Big thanks to Dave and friends for that lovely prompt..without it, the buzzards might literally begin to feast on my mourning flesh, not just the metaphorical feastings of Dave and friends on the leftover remnants of my heart, my soul, my reputation, my freaking character!  After all, at this point, the pickings are so slim and meager that I genuinely can’t understand the interest…surely there’s not enough there to satisfy even a starving soul?

Apparently so, as I can’t even plan my pathetic, late-as-hell “escape” without a kick every once in a while for good measure.  I’m struggling and fighting this damned sense of victimization which I hate so much it makes me sick even to write of these things any more.  Or maybe it’s that burning sense of injustice and flood of unkindness and continued crucification which keeps me from withering up and dying completely.  It’s almost cost me a great degree of my voice and I do not know what I could even be after he’s fully taken my voice and my ability to write.  It just might be my lingering indignance which is holding the shell of my existence together at all, keeping it from crumbling quietly into dust. Perhaps I should stop fighting this victimized-feeling and embrace it, allow it to strengthen me out of my hopeless feeling of being powerless, beaten, and small?   Hmm….

I have comprised a plan of revenge.  In my circumstances, I have no way in which to actually carry it through, but it’s a lovely fantasy nonetheless.  I imagine that many people love me and know the truth of these past five years…the whole down-n-dirty, humiliating truth and they are so outraged and angry they begin a letter-writing campaign on my behalf – no, on the behalf of all people who have gone through emotional and mental abuse.  Upon me leaving my home, he receives hundreds of letters from people who know the truth, faceless people who are not afraid to stand up against this man’s cruel persecution of my spirit.  Each day or week he receives lovely pieces of mail from people who know what he has done and refuse to buy into his lies and bullshit, as a regular reminder that he did not just “get away with it”.  And he, like me, has no chance, opportunity, or method by which to combat the attack.  He would just have to sit in it, regularly reminded of his cruelty, its effects, and his powerlessness!  Then he might have to spend some time in paranoia, looking at every stranger who meets his eye and wondering, does he know?  Does she?  Just as I still worry with every person I meet or pass, “Did he tell them I was crazy?  Did he tell that person I’m a psycho?  A slut?  A lying cheater?  Wonder what story  that person heard?”

For it seems, just when I’ve let the worries go and have convinced myself anyone who believes his garbage at this point is merely a victim of sorts themselves and is entitled to my sympathy, when I finally get to the “I don’t give a damn what he’s said to anyone”, another lovely twisted story of his finds its way to me…piling on top of the huge pile of garbage he’s dumped on me that I’m already trying to climb out from underneath.  And the exhaustion revives itself in me.  The sense of powerlessness and damned victimization I hate SO much, gathers al around my soul to begin feasting again.

I sent him a message asking him just to please SHUT UP.  Leave me alone.   Reminding him he has not a single reason at this point in his game to speak my name even, let alone tarnish it further.  He has won by yards and miles already. The damage done is irreversible even now.  I’m leaving and his story will always stand in my place of absence; not mine, not the truth, but his sick and twisted deviation of my person. I can’t imagine any greater victory for him?  So why continue beating this broken and beaten thing?  Does he really still get that much pleasure and self-satisfaction from it…even NOW?  Why not just SHUT UP?   No, go above and beyond to make everyone always, think the person you’ve victimized is psycho crazy, then you never have to worry about being held accountable for the cruelty you perpetually heaped upon her…  After all, she’s just “crazy”.  Nothing she says will ever account to anything after you’ve told that to enough people ad nauseum.

Why am I so surprised anyway?  Why wouldn’t anyone want to continue kicking and beating the person they’ve already slaughtered?  After all, she’s dead already…. It’s not like anyone will ever find out the truth now…or believe it coming from a crazy-psycho dead girl even if they did!                                 

Ohhh it would be Christmas every day to just imagine this letter-campaign of outraged people, addressing the truth to him which he feels he has sufficiently buried beneath his heavily placed offensive-tactic accusations and insults. He could just laugh away a few letters, but if hundreds came to him long after I’m gone, that would have to make him think maybe he wasn’t really fooling everyone after all.  His mailbox becoming the screaming, lingering Tell-Tale Heart of an Edgar Allen Poe story!  It’s a harmless, but juicy thought in my weak state of stress, fatigue, and hopeless indignation…

(insert evil cackle here)

Cinnamon

Once I drenched myself, my home, even my car in cinnamon because I thought it would be magical.  In spite of the fact that cinnamon isn’t my favorite scent, I think I read somewhere that it was best.  Everything had the lingering delicious softest scent of cinnamon and almost by chance, there were hints here and there of vanilla.  Cinnamon is magical isn’t it?

Yes, it was magic, magical, enchanting, breathtaking, captivating, and beautifully profound.  It was all of that.  You were the catalyst of magic!  Or was I?  …It was I who carefully selected the scent and all the components, I who thought it through so thoroughly and you who just showed up to participate. Of course you did, I am cinnamon magic.  Magically cinnamon…

And nothing changed… it was just another another.  No more than that. 

Cinnamon hopes sent back to the beginning when there was everything and nothing but the smell of cinnamon.

The frustration of documentation

Don’t know why, but I’m craving a documentation of my experience.  Do I want this in hopes of validation?  Who would I even share it with?

On some level, I do think it would be validating and healthy to have it documented in writing.  I can’t imagine anyone would ever be interested, but I might feel a satisfaction knowing that in the rare event anyone might be curious, interested, or perhaps even helped by my experience, then such information would be available.    And if no one ever was, no harm done, right?  Writing has always been my primary outlet of purging my thoughts and releasing them to better organize and understand.  Writing is my perpetual therapist.  She/he is compassionate, patient, forgiving, and cleansing…and so far has never once given up on me…no  matter the extent of my insanity or problem.  I realize that this is no easy task, as I’m a perpetually frustrating hard and enduring case of a myriad of issues, experiences, and a constant insatiable craving for knowledge and understanding.

So writing a documentation of this would be nothing harmful and only positive.  Yet, I can’t get my thoughts in order enough to write it.  Perhaps because I’ve only minutely documented bits and pieces in extreme moments.  Yes, I am not a totally reliable client to my therapist.  I selfishly come and go only as needed…

I feel so strongly that documentation is necessary for myself and/or perhaps to help others.  It repeats in my mind that it must be done.  It is so frustrating to feel pushed and compelled to do something that seems just beyond one’s capabilities…  Simultaneously and to add to my frustration, I have the chronic paranoia that time is running out to do this.  I am merely in my 30′s….and it feels that time is running out…literally??

Um, I am apparently quite mad.  And in that madness, I only wish that I could cross the boundary into the comfort of complete and utter madness.  Standing on the fence for so long has become exhausting:-) AHHHHHAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAHHHHAAAAAAA (that was my attempt at an evil laugh!)

Ummm…..gosh, or have I?

Shining

sunshine

The sun is shining today and I can’t help but wish I could open my chest to let it shine directly on my heart; to penetrate through the frigid ice it’s encased in and bring it back to life

Blessings, broken dreams and loooonnng goodbye’s

Bittersweet goodbyes….. memories flooding…thoughts controlling

I am hungry for the future and yet I also feel so conflicted about time passing.  As though, I wish to sit in this place forever?    Why?  The further I get from the realityof my happiness dream, the more distant it becomes and difficult to hold on to.  Like travelling in a  time machine and trying to hold hands with the present.

I am not ready for my little girl to grow up so quickly.  I am not ready to give up onwhat must be sacrificed in order to gain peace and closure.  No, I am simultaneously more than ready (eager, almost!) and not at all (clinging to those hazy but beautiful dreamy clouds).  All at the same time.

Wanting to know the future and afraid of letting go of the past all at once.  What a ridiculous contradiction!!  As though somehow knowing the future will allow me to release my grip on the past?  Is that what my  subconscious thinks?  I know better than that for crying out loud!

I wonder if I’m more afraid of letting go than I’m afraid of him letting go?  What if I’m the glue that’s holding us to destiny?  What if I’m the thorn in our side holding us back? What if my little girl grows up and doesn’t adore me so much any more?

What about missing the present and damaging the future because you refuse to release the past?  When you spend so much time and energy desperately gripping those memories, aren’t you losing the opportunity to be making more?  Meanwhile, you’re gaining memories of holding onto memories while the present slips by…

My daughter crying because she missed him so much….that was so long ago.  Now she’s borderline hostile about him because she’s watched me suffer.  She’s watched me yo-yo, riding to the depths of hope and crashing harshly down just as quickly.  Did I lose her along the way?

Yesterday was her 2nd dance.  She danced with a boy four times and he held her hand for a moment!  Her life is rapidly propelling into the future.  I think she is well adjusted and healthy, considering the selfish misery of her mother over the past years.  She has the strength of confidence I never had.  She has the power of forever right in her vision, right now.  She doesn’t allow herself to dwell anywhere but in happiness and excitement.  I love that about her.  I hope and pray, in spite of everything, I’ve helped create and encourage that in her.

I’ve never been good at goodbyes.  I’ve avoided them like the plague since I was a small child with even just a minimal grasp of the sense of loss and grief.  As an adult, I’m obviously no better at it.

I didn’t even grieve my beloved cat until he was next to me.  It was as though I could not.  I don’t know how to grieve my little girl growing up now on my own either.

So my youngest says as we dropped off her sister, “I think I know how you feel Momma.”  You do?  How’s that baby? “Your little girl is growing up and it’s hard for you to watch.”

Gosh, the wisdom and vast compassion of children!  I’m so incredibly blessed.  How on earth did I get so lucky?!!???

Yes, sacrificing the dream of yesterday is worth enjoying the memories of today while drenched in the blessing of their love and health.

I’m the most blessed person in the universe!  Thank you.

Randomly in the rain

I have a silent wish.  It’s one of those things that my mind (heart?) automatically projects out without any concious effort on my part.  Come to me when it rains.

I don’t know where this thought came from or when it began.  It’s just always been there, like the moon during the daylight shining quietly in the sky, but overwhelmed by the sun and so subtle yet so very amazingly just there.  Come to me when it rains.  Nothing has ever come from that automatic though/wish.  I’ve never even really imagines anything would.  It’s just one of those things that’s there in my mind when ever it rains

So it is odd that just yesterday it hit me that on Sunday (when he surprisingly and randomly stopped over on his way to work) that it was raining.  How did I miss that tiny detail?  He came in wet and I said, “Gosh, you’re all wet!”  and I laughed when he responded, “I just got out of the shower.”  …So, you wear your work clothes and  jacket in the shower now?  And we laughed a bit. 

It was raining so hard when he arrived, that he was almost drenched, yet this didn’t “hit” me until yesterday when I recalled hugging him and how wet he was.  Too funny that I’d miss that altogether!  Maybe I always felt like it only counts under precise circumstances?  Maybe I’d released that thought, whatever it is?  I don’t know, but he randomly, inconveniently (for him only), and without any real purpose, reason, or self motivation that I’m aware of, came to me while it rained.  How glorious!

Maybe I’d always imagined it as more romantic, as some irresistible urge to come to me when the sky is so overwhelmed, its tears are falling all over us?  As though it had to be a sudden visit full of vehemence?    Well in relative terms, wasn’t it?  Okay, so I didn’t throw myself into his arms and express my every emotion and neither did he(gosh, how I miss that experience!)…  I did, however, throw myself in his arms upon his leaving and not in a sexual way, but in the manner in which I always hold him completely, with everything I have that has the ability to wrap itself around him; as though I’m securing him, protecting him with my physical self, I have almost always done this…  And I’ve allowed little to force me to cease that ritual.

So really, it was….  It was a delayed reaction and came when I least expected it and didn’t realize it even, but he heard…he came…randomly in the rain…

One wish

If a fairy came to me right now and granted me one wish, what would it be?  What is one thing that would help create lasting love and ecstasy in my heart?  What is one thing that would help better direct me to full and beautiful transformation?

For years now, I have thought that resurrecting the gorgeous, fulfilling relationship I had with Dave would bring me lasting happiness.  But have I thought that only because that’s the major primary source of the heart liberating joy I once knew?  Maybe that was just a small thing compared to the possibilities I’m not even yet aware of?  It’s difficult to fathom that because it was my first experience with healthy, happy love and since I haven’t known much of that throughout my life, maybe the concept of better is out there and I just cannot comprehend it?  Would I want it back?  Is there more possible that I’ve yet to even imagine? The experiences we’ve gone through over the past few years must have changed us both.  Is it possible to get something from the past back?  Or do you always get something different?  There was nothing I wanted to change about him then.  I did want to change myself though and it seemed so effortless to be something fantastic when he loved and adored me.  I’ve made many changes now, but he has too, so what would that mean?  Would we be the same together, only even better for the changes that have occurred?  Or would we be a complete mis-match now? Would we only bring each other more misery if we started anew?  Would we just bring more wisom and experience to the table?

I believed for so long that if we could get through all that has happened, then we would be truly unbelievably strong and nothing could ever shake us again…and I’ve always added that as a bonus concept to the healthy relationship we once shared.  Is it possible to go through so much and come back together for something as good or better?

I think I might be afraid to make that my wish.  What if it was granted and it wasn’t a good thing anymore?  And then I’d have wasted a once in a lifetime opportunity to have one wish.

I think I’m better off wishing for world peace.  I want joy and love to be everywhere,  inside  everyone.  It would make the whole world a better place and not just my miniscule little corner…  Dang, I am such a cheesy cliche’ lately!

…rain…

…Rain…

 

I dreamt of you this morning…

Rain and you pouring all around…

Your taste still storming

delicious, on my tongue

Your scent floating in the air

like a haunted song

Your mouth lingering on my lips

…a passionate prayer

Your hand on my hips

pulling me softly closer

My skin still wrapped in the heat

of your essence, as it washed

your tender presence

over my heart  so sweet.

So hard to understand

love’s rhythm and rhyme…

why it beats and sustains…

and why I miss you even more

when the sky spills the rain

 

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