Habit
written by: Jackie Figueroa
One day
One month
One year later –
You still linger in my day-to-day.
Now I find myself
Unable to handle
All these conversations.
All these meaningless jokes.
The saying goes,
“Time heals all wounds.”
So, I haven’t looked away
From the clock.
Much like a habit,
I want to call out to you –
But like the hands of time,
We keep running –
Just past each other.
Jackie Figueroa is a writer of emotional cartography, tracing the lines between heartbreak and healing with honesty and care. Her work blends memory, melancholy, and meaning into verses that linger quietly. She writes not to be heard, but to be understood — by anyone who has ever loved too much, hurt too deeply, or stood frozen at the edge of what almost was.
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