Dear you,
You and I were kids when we fell in love
but
now we're too old to know better
it's been 3 years since I left you in the bleak parking lot in Texas and gave you myself one last time...
I've consistently let you go, but now it's time for you to let me go
We always carry parts of those who we have loved with us,
like crimson maroon merlot on a brand new white dress...
Do you rememeber the night at my college apartment? You knew exactly how to touch me and make me feel like I was yours....
the multiple steamy, intimate showers....the touch.....the cravings
all of it is just memories now...
Flasback to when I first fell in love with you... I was full of anxiety and lost all control when I loved you, being with you brought out my own toxic traits not even I can hide from, I wanted you to be somene you weren't and I should've not tried to have so much control
the control only suffocated you
I loved you so much I sacrificed my own morals just to try to get you back
I was cruel,
my words hit you like daggers,
I wanted to hurt you like you hurt me and that was wrong
every part of me has changed and you still treat me as ghastly as you did when we were 17
you're the same boy I loved nine years ago who can't love me the way I deserve..
you always will be,
but I am not that fragile, ingenuous girl I once was
I don't look back with regret,
you helped me become who I am today and part of me will always love you for that...
but I am not IN love with you anymore
You're a rollercoaster and I haven't wanted to ride in years...
Things have felt finished for 3 years now and you know that
Let me continue to flourish without you... we both know I am better off that way
You walked away from me first and I have walked away from you many times now...
They say you're free of the pain when you tell it....
This chapter in my life is over and the book is closed....
It would be mendacious if I didn't say it was fun to remember being a kid with you
thinking we'd be together forever because we just happended to get it right the first time
you ruined us with adultry,
I stayed loyal to you for way too long after you chose to lay with another woman
I remember her name and the way you played the A game with a freshman when you were a senior
You older, her younger
tourted you were and tourted you still are
the cigarettes
meeting behind closed doors
being a secret to each other in ways only we knew
betraying her just to be tangled in the sheets with me
the way you tasted like cigarettes and sorrow
For years, I would find myself back in your bed and we would catch up like we talked yesterday
to now
being in the same town and not answering your calls
You will always be a story I reread once a year
Old habits die screaming, don't they old friend?
You know we're no good for each other
We're different people in a lot of ways and that's a good thing
You too know it will never be what it was all those years ago
Our connection has become flowers that never see the daylight,
haven't seen water in years, and could crumble with one faint touch..
You know we're no good for each other
I've only got well wishes for you, but I don't need you and you don't need me...
old habits die screaming
you were always easy to fall back into, but so prenicious
I wish you nothing, but the best truly, I hope you're okay, but it's your turn to let me go...
Stop reaching out. Stop trying to get me to look your way.
I don't wanna endure the pain that loving you comes with.
We're a letter that has already been written
The quill pen won't write anymore,
but I keep the letter in my bedside table
a reminder of what it was like to love you
You never forget your first...
all my love old friend
xoxo,
your first love
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