Letting Go
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A poem about the quiet moment love finally leaves after surviving too much.
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She was not waiting for him to become someone new; she was waiting for the sober man she had already loved to come back and stay.
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Years after the relationship ended, a playlist still carrying her name preserves forty-four minutes of a love that no longer exists.
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A song once promised the ordinary miracle of growing old together; survival rewrites that future so the children can still grow, just without him.
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A love song called Tomorrow once promised a future; years later, it becomes proof that tenderness and danger once lived in the same story.
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A song begging her not to go once sounded like devotion; later, it reveals how easily being needed can masquerade as being loved.
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One person’s heartbreak barely interrupts the other’s night out, revealing how unevenly love can end.
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A woman looks back at everything she tried to keep alive and finally names the last thing she ever owed the person who kept hurting her.
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A poem about refusing to let a breakup be rewritten as a mutual ending.
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After the relationship ran out of words, songs became the last language two people could still send across the distance.
