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Set him free

I am proud of my wounds.
I have loved truly,
I have fought until the inevitable end.
I gave my everything,
I toiled and sweated to salvage the last remnants of my heart.
But more importantly,
I gave all I had to the one I loved,
without any regrets,
without any complaint.

I see him now,
very distant from me.
He has moved away to a place
where I can no longer reach him.
Yet, I see the smile on his face,
His happiness mesmerising and contagious.
I feel happy for him,
happy that he has set out for his dreams,
with the same relentless passion
which was the reason I fell in love with him.

I see that he has changed towards people,
welcoming them openly
when moments back he wanted only me,
and shunned everybody else.
The tears that fall while writing these lines,
only serve as a reminder that somewhere, somehow,
I miss him and all that we used to be.

No us anymore, only him.
And a broken me.
I set him free,
vowing that my love was not selfish.
I taught myself to smile through the loss,
refusing to tie him down where he didn't want to be.
Love should be free, after all.
The years of my life spent, I cannot wish them back,
and I can only be grateful I had love,
when it was there between us,
grateful that he cared enough
to spend few moments of his lifetime with me.

I wish for nobody else to soothe this pain.
My heart cries only for him
and now I have only those lines to comfort me.

Poetry by myst_ery
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