The Prey

Some people walked into your life not to stay, but to carve out a part of you that would never belong to anyone else. He was that person-chaos I couldn’t tame, and I was a quiet he couldn’t understand. Together, we were both too much and still not enough.

I didn’t know why I was even thinking about this.

But I truly wanted to know what were we? Lovers, enemies, acquaintances?

There was no word for the space we occupied in each other’s lives. No definition for the push and pull that tied us together like sea held by sand.

I wondered if he ever thought about it...