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A freelancer for writing and financial services @ An entrepereneur
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I Bought The Ticket
<p style="text-align: center; ">I thought I knew better.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I had watched enough girls</p><p style="text-align: center; ">walk willingly</p><p style="text-align: center; ">into traps</p><p style="text-align: center; ">with their eyes wide open,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">swearing they could see the teeth.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">So I told myself,</p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>not me.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I have sense.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I am a grown woman,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">with the hips to match,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">surely somewhere inside this body</p><p style="text-align: center; ">there is a functioning brain.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Then I met you.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">And suddenly</p><p style="text-align: center; ">my intelligence became</p><p style="text-align: center; ">a rumour.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">You said hello</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and I started writing futures</p><p style="text-align: center; ">you had never agreed to.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">You said the right things</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and I called you thoughtful.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">You knew how to calm me</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and I called you safe.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">You knew exactly what to say</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and I called it connection.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I saw the smoke.</p><p style="text-align: center; ">I smelled it on you.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I saw the strange places.</p><p style="text-align: center; ">The disappearing acts.</p><p style="text-align: center; ">The things that didn't quite add up.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I saw the warnings</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and called them inconveniences.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Because I had already made room for you</p><p style="text-align: center; ">in a life</p><p style="text-align: center; ">you had barely asked to enter.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">So I rearranged the furniture.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Moved the red flags to the corner.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Covered the cracks with flowers.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Told myself</p><p style="text-align: center; ">this is what couples do.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">We work through things.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Idiot</em>.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Then I heard you.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Not the version of you</p><p style="text-align: center; ">that spoke to me.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">The other one.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">The one that wanted</p><p style="text-align: center; ">to take me somewhere,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">take something from me,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">leave with proof</p><p style="text-align: center; ">that I had been there.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">And suddenly</p><p style="text-align: center; ">the fog lifted.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">No dramatic revelation.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">No thunder.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Just clarity.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">The kind that makes you wonder</p><p style="text-align: center; ">how you could have been</p><p style="text-align: center; ">so fucking blind.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">I left quietly.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Smiled politely.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Made up an excuse.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Walked away</p><p style="text-align: center; ">with whatever was left of my dignity</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and the virginity of my common sense.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">And on the way home</p><p style="text-align: center; ">I kept hearing the things</p><p style="text-align: center; ">I had told myself.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>I would be careful.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Sure.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>I would be different.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Of course.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>I know what I'm doing. The plans are in order.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Oshey, architect.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>I was in love.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Girl, bye.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Maybe I wasn't stupid.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Maybe I just wanted</p><p style="text-align: center; ">the story I had created</p><p style="text-align: center; ">more than I wanted</p><p style="text-align: center; ">the truth standing in front of me.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Maybe that's the embarrassing part.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Not that I loved you.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Not that I trusted you.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">But that for a while,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">I looked into a mirror</p><p style="text-align: center; ">and couldn't recognise</p><p style="text-align: center; ">the woman making excuses</p><p style="text-align: center; ">for you.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">So tell me,</p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>how do I look?</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><img src="/media/inline_insight_image/ChatGPT_Image_Aug_18_2026_10_09_00_PM.png"/></p>
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