"Move On"
by Elizabeth
This is going to be difficult,
But it needs to be done.
I want to move on.
And the only real reason to do that is if I forgive you.
So I forgive you for lying to me for years.
I forgive you for leaving me countless nights to be somewhere you shouldn’t have.
I forgive you for letting me cry myself to sleep without ever bothering to check on me.
I forgive you for not caring how sad and depressed I was.
And lastly, I forgive you for tearing my entire life apart.
I just want to move on now.
The past is too painful to keep going back to.
So instead I’m moving on,
With, or without you.
Poetry
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This is a tough, honest take on the complicated emotions involved in a break-up. Great job writing about it with maturity.
Forgiveness is certainly an excellent first step to getting through a break-up. It’s always so difficult to be the one left behind, the one who was faithful, to be the one who loses and gets hurt. Your prose here is calm, though the tight emotion of loss is evident. It’s not too self-indulgent. I hope things are better for your now, as it has been some time since you originally posted this piece.