One Day You’ll Thank Me For Letting You Go

I knew you wouldnt be mine in the years to come.

So before those gates opened completely, I let you go.

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Updated 8 years ago,October 11, 2017

I couldve held on forever.

Taweeroj Eawpanich

I couldve clung to your shirt as you stepped out the door.

I couldve set the alarm for an hour later; I could have hidden your keys.

I could have looked in your enchanting eyes and told you I wanted you to stay.

Taweeroj Eawpanich

But I would have been stalling, fending off an inevitable end.

I would have simply been skirting around a future that didnt include you one that didnt include us.

You told me Id be the death of you, and I knew you meant every word.

I wanted to tell the future to give me one last moment.

I would have told you to stay.

I would have begged for it.

But it would have been horrible of me to drag us through a cruel end.

You asked me if I believed in forever, and I shook my head no.

So I cut it short, and Ilet you go.

Because if theres one thing Ive learned in my short life, it is that attachment presupposes loss.

But I knew you wouldnt be mine in the years to come.

So before those gates opened completely, I let you go.

One day you willthankme for leaving us behind.

For moving on, for not letting possibilities linger.

You will thank me for selecting our ending.

And one day, Ill thank you for everything.

For making me laugh, for listening to words I had never let leave my lips.

For simply being there.

One day youll thank me for fading away.

Youll thank me for stepping aside so she can take her rightful place.

Sometime in the future ahead, youll thank me for our goodbye.

I just hope that one day, you wont regret that we first said hello.