HeyJaredsmall wounds
small wounds is a living poetry project about love, transformation, and what lingers after.
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STORIES OF SURVIVAL (opens the original)
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There are things we survive that nobody sees.A broken heart you never told anyone about. A friendship that slowly disappeared. A year you barely made it through. A version of yourself you had to leave behind. A life you imagined but never got to live.An addiction. Or two. The loss of someone precious. A night spent awake, wondering whether to end your life. An accident. An illness. A depressive episode.Some losses don't come with funerals.Some wounds don't have witnesses.That's why I've been thi
you almost saved me (opens the original)
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There are no funerals for the life I never had.For the love that never existed. The child who was never born. The friendships I lost. The future that only exists when I close my eyes.There are no condolences for the rainy days I spent holding you in my head. For the days when I begged not to wake up again. For the version of myself still wandering somewhere far away, the one who will never come back.There are no coffins for the almosts.I was almost good enough.I almost made it.I almost got the j
I didn’t know I missed you (opens the original)
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FIRE (opens the original)
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, sometimes loving someone means learning when to let them go.This is the other side of that story.Subscribe nowPay Sub ♥<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZG2z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
SMOKE (opens the original)
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, sometimes love finds you before you are ready to be found.This is one side of that story.Subscribe nowPay Sub ♥<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RZub!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2
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