In the Making: “I wrote this after walking away from my favorite person in the world,” an anonymous contributor said. “I had to come to terms with the fact that our relationship was toxic. I was dependent on her, and she liked that I relied on her. It took a lot of work to build myself back up. This poem was about learning to be my own “anchor,” or learning how to do things on my own, without her. It’s about independence and grief.”
now that i have stepped away
i see the bigger picture
it’s no longer me and only you
you’re not the only fixture
that can keep me grounded
i can make myself my anchor
i cannot keep returning, you
won’t sail my ship, you sank her
i need to find a telescope to
filter all this madness
because of you, i only thought
it terms of sadder, saddest
and though i’ve finally reached the ground
the sky still calls my name
the moon is a whole world away
she sings to me in vain