One Day I Will Save Myself

by Elvira Sastre

Day One without you: I miss you so much that it’s still yesterday on my watch.

I could say to you that if you leave me someday I’ll put myself before you, precisely in that exact place that will never let you look back with regret.

I could say to you that for me any place is my home if you are the one who opens the door.

You insisted on being the protagonist of my life, even though you were the villain, I don’t love myself for having created you even though you define part of my story.

You appear when I’m alone with myself, in that hell in which solitude is a crowd of people and noise and someone is crying on the other side of the wall. And, between the temptation to hate you

I don’t know where you are but I know that wherever it may be you will be proud of me for forgetting you. I have forgotten you, broken love.