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She believed that she was only made to love others, and not to be loved herself.

Pouring her heart out to all those that cross her path.

But never expecting anything in return.

Loneliness walked beside her everyday of her life, like a cat that has chosen the one they wish to follow.

Swirling around her feet for comfort with every step she takes in life.

But she doesn’t mind. She knows she wants more but she is content being the one to give love and compassion to others who she thinks deserves it more.

How her soul can feel so empty yet spill so much love for anyone other than herself, she did not know.

Yet she never complained.

She had become used to it, the reality of never receiving the kind of love that she gives to others.

Loneliness saw this and took pity on her. It knew how draining it was to walk through life shouldering your own burdens.

She often thought of a quote from a book, “we accept the love we think we deserve”. And she had come to accept any morsel of love that anyone threw at her.

But she never let it break her.

Her soul always somehow remained lit with a small flame that connected her to the souls of other exactly like her across the universe.

They talk about the unbreakable human spirit. They do not know that she is that saying personified.

She had no idea and no one to tell her, but although she was waling alone in her own life, she wasn’t walking alone in this time.

She would keep loving until she joined all the other lovers in the dirt.

Rotting and falling into each other until they are called upon again to rejoin the world that will never see them as enough.