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    For The Quiet
    For The Quiet
    For The Quiet
    Ebook46 pages20 minutes

    For The Quiet

    By Abigail Grimes

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    An aching journey through love and loss.

     

    This intimate collection explores lost love in the technological age, yearning for someone next to you, and the feeling of floating adrift in the face of lost hope.

     

    For The Quiet is for anyone who has ever loved.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWBG/WBC Publications
    Release dateNov 10, 2020
    ISBN9781777386313
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      Book preview

      For The Quiet - Abigail Grimes

      Wanting

      You know me

      You know what makes me tick

      The musk of your cologne lingers

      My head turns

      The heat of your skin a tease

      The closeness of your body torture

      I feel you

      Our eyes meet

      My breath catches

      Eyes cast down, my heart races

      Your fingertips along the back of my hand as you pass

      You are gone

      And you leave me here

      Wanting

      Dear Briar

      I miss you today.

      I miss you every day, but today there is an ache. A hollowness.

      Today, in my heart and mind, I will keep you close. For company and for peace.

      It’s quiet here. We can just sit and watch the water lap the shore.

      Yours, patiently waiting,

      Me

      The Archived

      You may be in her DMs, but I am in her archives.

      She will always come back to me. I am her history, and possibly her future.

      It is she, not you that keeps me alive.

      And it is she, not you, that will be here when this is all said and done.

      I have no issue with you, for you are temporary.

      You pose no threat to me.

      She is eternal, and to her, so am I.

      I represent something to her that you never will.

      Security.

      No matter who will slide into her DMs after you, and the numerous before you,

      I have always been here.

      And after you are gone, she will look me up and wonder, even if just for a moment, where I am

      Long after she has forgotten your name, she’ll still call mine out by accident

      For you are but a passing fancy

      I am the measure by which you and all others are weighed – and found wanting

      I am steady and reliable; and when you’re gone, it will be

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