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You no longer have to apologize because I have accepted the fact that it just wasn’t meant to be.

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So, in prayer and on bent knees: I forgave you.

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You don’t deserve my time, but you deserve my forgiveness. You deserve God.

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I forgive you for not believing me when I needed you.

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Sorry it took me much longer than I hoped to start to want to forgive you. And I sure am glad that you stayed long enough to see this day.

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I forgive you because you wouldn’t understand unless you were me. 

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I want to go on with my life without any more grudge. I don’t want that heavy feeling in my chest. I deserve the kind of breathlessness that comes from cliff diving or snorkeling, not the kind where I get left behind.

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I resented you, but at the same time part of me hoped you’d come back because without you my life didn’t have the same meaning I thought.

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It’s hard to hate you because really, I feel bad for you. It must not be easy to push people away constantly, to be someone who sees other people as place-fillers. All of this is only preventing you from realizing that at the root of it all, you’re alone.

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I threw all my hope into you, thinking that you could save me. But I’m not angry that you didn’t. Because I was forced to save myself.