Little Broken Inside

To the ones who feel a little broken inside.

You've been through so much, I know. You've been lied to, and you've been hurt. Your heart used to be whole, but now its surfaces are full of cracks, concealed with torn-ups band-aids of the love that you try so hard to give yourself, but it still hurts.

You try, you try, to hold on. You tell yourself that one day, it'd stop hurting so much. One day, this pain that you're carrying inside you, it'll go away. You're scared of letting anyone near you because, what if, they end up hurting you again and damaging your already half-dead soul.

But that's the thing, you see. You forget. Souls don't die. And hearts - they don't stay broken forever.

And all this hurt that you're carrying inside you, that you don't know what to do with one day, you'll wake up to find that they aren't hurting as much. They'll feel like memories from a dream, they'll feel like they're from a different era, a different time.

That's the answer, no matter how impossible it might seem right now. Give it time, and give yourself all the love you're capable of giving, in the meanwhile.

And let me tell you one thing, YOU ARE ALREADY WHOLE. One day you'll feel like it and you'll wake up believing that you are.

-Pranavi Darsi