No matter what

Nothing and no one can make me hate you.


Not the endless arguments,


Not the way you twisted the truth,


Not the feeling that I’d always be answering to you—and to her.


Not even the blind sacrifices I made, only to find nothing waiting for me in the end.

A part of me will always love you,


Simply because hating you takes too much energy.


Grudges are heavy,


And it’s draining to carry them.


It’s exhausting being told that I shouldn’t allow myself space to forgive, forget, and move forward.


It’s exhausting pretending to be bitter.

I can accept that you never truly loved me.

I can accept the manipulation.

I can accept that we never fit—


A square peg in a round hole.


And I can accept that I clung to that life,

that dream,


Because I was still unhealed.

But with all of this,


I choose to release you,


To release my old self,


With love.

Because holding onto bitterness isn’t worth it.