toxic people

Emotions...
I smiled softly, but it was so cold that I couldn't even feel it.
"That thing... we dropped a long time ago."
My eyes sank, like a bottomless abyss.
"When you were hurt by a sentence... I was used to silence in the midst of a thousand words."
"When you wept for the loss... I learned to walk over the body of the past without looking back."
I raised my hand, then dropped it as if there was nothing to hold on to.
"Emotions don't have to go away..."
"It's just... it died inside me from the moment I understood."
"If you want to survive... you must not be weak.