delusion,
Perhaps delusion
was the only way
to keep you sacred.
But what if
it turns rancid
with every breath
I take?
Should I let you go—
or simply
let you be?
But tell me, my muse
what is there
to let go of,
when there was never
someone
to lose?
When the hand
I ached to hold
was always
too far from mine—
a privilege I sought,
but never,
meant to have.
The distinction between letting go and letting be is quietly powerful.
Letting go suggests there was once something to hold. Letting be releases the claim without denying that the longing was real.
Perhaps it is not the person who must be released, but the imagined future built around them...allowing the ache to reveal what the heart desired without requiring someone who was never ours to fulfill it.
Beautifully restrained work.
Exactly. People don’t want to be rejected and want the same back not because they have changed, because they don’t want to accept the reasons for being rejected. And if taken back the exact pattern restarts but worse because now you feel even more resentment.