"Thank you for leaving me,for letting me go,for letting go,for turning aroundwhen I needed..."

“Thank you for leaving me,

for letting me go,

for letting go,

for turning around

when I needed you,

for putting all the blame

on me,

for surrendering my truth

when it wasn’t yours

to give away,

for putting your insecurities

on me,

for forgetting

that I was on your team,

for trying to sabotage

my name

when it only ever

tried to save yours,

for hurting me first

and saying

I deserved it,

for destroying the truth

that took us so long

to repair,

for forcing me

to move on,

because if you never

tried to break me

I would never be

as happy and as sure of myself

as I am today.”

- “Thank you for leaving me because if you hadn’t I would still be who I was while we were together,” - Colleen Brown