mine (Speak Now, stolen in 2009, TV 2023)
when i took that first step out of the family home all those months ago,
it was accompanied by a strange sense of relief and a terrifying realisation of how life
was never going to be the same again. I always found it
hard to envision how life might look outside of familiarity, only knowing that it captivated me in ways I could never properly fathom.
to get the tiniest taste of independence and aloneness in a way i never had to, it would
take everything in me to stomach the new reality i chose to make my own. I wouldn’t call it indigestion, perhaps more of rewiring my mind’s neural networks around digestion and acclimatising.
you are the best thing that’s ever been mine — here’s to my ‘bravery’ and come what may
