Challenge
Heartbreak Anniversary
This is my grandmother's first anniversary without my grandfather. Write in any style about love, loss, and/or a lonely anniversary.
Today is the day (Trigger warning: suicide)
Today, what seems like a hundred years ago, I lost my life
and started a new one.
I was close to ending it all.
I was looking for a gun.
I was looking for a way out of the hell hole I was in.
I wanted to kill, and not just me.
I wanted to hurt everybody who had brought me to this place.
I felt hopeful, fighting might be worth it.
I wanted to get out.
I didn't get out,
not for a long time.
But that one night, I chose not to harm.
This is the anniversary of that night.
That problem still continues.
It makes every day worse than the last,
but I still remember that night.
A night I regret.
The night I decided to survive.
I wish I didn't regret that night, but I'm stuck reliving the horror inside.
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