Closure Stories

17 years later. Jayson stirred as the morning sun shone through the curtains of his beach cottage. The sea breeze wafted them upwards, and the dawn of a new day filled the room. The air was fresh and crisp, birdsong surrounded him, and waves gently crashed on the shore nearby. He collected his thoughts as he lay there, then turned to a flow of long auburn hair cascading over the pillow next to him. He took a deep breath a...

The ringtone of an unknown number broke the silence of the night. It wasn’t the sound that woke me, but the feeling in my heart that something was about to change. I glanced at the phone and saw a number I hadn’t seen in a long time. A number from a place I had left behind years ago. I answered the call, my voice shaking slightly, “Hello?” “Jake?” The voice on the other end was soft, almost hesitant. I recognized it insta...

They say it takessome time to healwhen losing love the pain you feelIn biding time you realise it might just takemore thoughts apprisedTo ask myselfwhat did I doto let her downwithout a clueSure, certian thingscome into playbut don't add up to my dismayTo pick apart the scattered cluesand tell myselfthis was no ruseI can't keep trackof all of thesesadistic statisticsand frailtiesBut give it timewith what I knowand tell my...

In my sorrow I do know, that today she will tell me no with her heart in tow,her love she will let go for reasons only she will know My head hung in woe, as her words deliver blows no shield could hold In my misery, my heart felt its shame as her truths rang I finally understood the depths of my pain for in her silent deceit I wept for me