Goodbye to you/me.

To a girl that I no longer recognize,

I finally know why.

And I'm finally ready to let you go.

You were scared and helpless and weak.

You thought you were wretched and hopless and hard to love.

And you were. 

Because you thought you were.

But I see that you left.

You left and you've never looked better.

The things you told yourself weren't true.

The things that hadn't happened yet to prove you wrong don't exist,

but that never made you right.

You dropped your weakness at the sight of fear.

You defended yourself when push came and you were shoved.

You became beautiful and strong in all the right ways.

You loved yourself, and that was all you needed 

to get the love that no one else gave.

You no longer have to long for anything else.

The demons you faced are no longer yours because you dropped those too.

The things you no longer need made you more beautiful and confident than ever.

You no longer need to stop and hault when you hear his name.

He no longer matters.

Those people who made a hole in you have no longer the reponsibility to 

patch it up.

You already have. 

You never needed anyone else and now you have it.

That little bit of knowledge that you needed to show you that you were okay.

All of the love you missed no longer matters.

Those times where people left and you pretended that it was okay when it wasn't.

All of the pain that was cause is doused like a fire.

You lived, 

You conquered.

You're beautiful. 

And a part of you is gone,

But you've never looked better.

Human Dignity + Compassion = Peace.