The End Of A One-Sided Relationship

A letter to myself.

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And if this is the end,

so be it

But what have you learned from it?

What have you won,

what, lost?

A handful of songs

A spoonful of advice

A thimbleful of warmth?

But what if there wasn’t even a beginning,

And the ‘beginning’ was only in your head

And that it was your interpretation

of what didn’t happen,

But you wished it had?

What if this was just another

moment in time

That would have gone unnoticed

If you had not invested so much intensity into it?

To survive, now

You need to distance yourself

However painful that is:

Because without that distance, deliberately created,

You are going to disintegrate in every possible way

…

But if it is destined to be,

It will come to pass

And no amount of resolution

or conviction

Certainty or decisiveness will

keep away

What has to happen.

Don’t push it, so

Away from, or towards

There is a plan

That you know nothing of

Can you leave it at that,

And quit

stressing

pushing

pulling

lifting

sifting,

shifting?

But for now,

You need to distance yourself

To survive with dignity.

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