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I knew I had to leave you when I couldn’t picture a future with you.

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Let time do its magic to heal you, to put back all the pieces you’ve lost and to bring out the very essence of you.

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Leaving was right. Mostly for me, but also for you. I tell myself this every day. I’m learning that right will not always feel clean. It will be messy. It will hurt and the hurt will make it confusing but not any less right.

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I know there is so much earth left to discover, so much soft sand or hard ground for my feet to feel. So many people I have left to meet, so many lips to kiss, so many stories to write.

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The days seemed to pass without purpose, I didn’t exist in his world. I was a warm body to sleep next to and occasionally have sex with. If you could call it that. This is not the life I wanted.

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We’ve reached two separate paths, like Robert Frost said.
But divided you cannot conquer both.

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I was so blinded by the idea of you that I let myself play that role in your life thinking it was something that I wanted, because I so desperately wanted to be something you wanted.