When You're Getting Over It

Grief comes and goes like the day and night.

Photo by Julia Kadel on Unsplash

When today stops feeling like history.
When everyday doesn't feel like an echo
of that day. When your finger no longer
hesitates pressing the first letter key
of their name. When you're not excited
to sleep because the only space to see
one another is in grief poisoned dreams.
When it's no longer a relief to retreat
into dream. When you accept it's okay
to stop waiting for the one you can't see.
When you move on from passive language
in conversations about what happened.
When you feel relief at the lack of guilt
when it's time to create new memories.
When you've made peace with the fact
that you're going to have to be the one 
to remember it all for the both of you.

That keeps the past in good company.

Living for yourself breathes new life 
and light into a dark present. Growing 
into the person you were always meant 
to become, fills all those holes left behind
by Strife robbing Life of every good bond.

This gives your future a new companion.

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