Melissa Moret

3/20/26 - lol its been awhile. Dear God, Can I be honest with You? I feel like I’m at my limit. I don’t know how much more I can take. It feels like it’s one thing after another, and I’m trying to stay strong through it all. I know one thing I carry from my father is the ability to keep moving forward even while bleeding. He taught me to keep going no matter what, and I’ve held onto that. But the truth is, trying to stand strong while everything feels like it’s falling apart is not easy. I...

3/4/26 - Ready for bed. Dear God, The house visits are slowly stopping now. The questions of “how are you really doing?” have grown quieter. I can almost feel the unspoken thought in the room sometimes, that I should be doing a lot better by now. There are moments in the middle of normal conversations where I feel like I might fall apart, like the weight of everything might suddenly spill out. But I hold it in because I know people don’t always know what to do with that kind of pain. They...

You said you love poetry, so this one is for you. I used to write many poems; it’s something you never knew. Maybe because the lifetime we planned for fell through, and this is all I have left to give you. I hope you know it was always you, but God had other plans that I couldn’t undo. With you, time didn’t exist. Every memory was filled with a forever we never had to name. My heart learned a language only this love could explain. This is why letting you go still feels in vain. I learned so...