For The Better Good

I carry so many mixed emotions

they tangle like threads in my chest

some whisper your name softly,

some beg me to finally rest.

There are thoughts of you that linger

like echoes I can’t quite erase,

moments that rise without warning,

memories that still know your face.

I miss you in ways I can’t measure,

in ways I don’t speak out loud

a quiet ache beneath my ribs,

a longing wrapped in clouds.

But somewhere beneath the heartache,

beneath the wanting and the ache,

I know letting you go is the choice

I needed

hard as it was to make.

It’s for the better good, I tell myself,

for the peace I’m trying to find,

for the future I deserve to carry

without your shadow on my mind.

So I’ll feel these mixed emotions,

I’ll let them rise, then let them flow

because missing you is human…

but healing means letting go