"Just Let Go"

Saying goodbye was a mountain to climb,

Each step an ache, each word a crime.

It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,

Even knowing it was best to run.

How do you part from a love so vast,

When its beauty is tangled with shadows it cast?

How can the one who lit up my skies

Be the same who brought tears to my eyes?

You were the cause of my deepest pain,

A thunderstorm drenched in a soft refrain.

I loved you fiercely, despite the cost,

Holding on tighter as pieces were lost.

Our final goodbye whispered, "This must be the end,"

Yet my heart still bends where your echoes send.

I broke myself to keep you whole,

Even as it chipped away at my soul.

I’ve tried to unravel the depth of it all,

The way you’d lift me, then let me fall.

How love could burn and cradle me too,

A paradox pulsing, forever you.

Your LinkedIn tells of a life that’s grown,

While I’m still tethered to seeds we’d sown.

It seems so simple to say "just let go,"

But the roots run deeper than they know.

Caring for you feels like breathing air,

An instinctive pull I can’t repair.

How do I let go of what made me whole?

When you left, you carried part of my soul.

So I sit with these signs, unread, ignored,

Their wisdom a burden I can’t afford.

Perhaps moving on isn’t cutting the tie,

But learning to live while still asking why.

And maybe one day, the whispers will cease,

As I find my own version of peace.

For now, I honor the love that remains,

A bittersweet thread in life’s tangled chains.

~RMC