I let you go

My love for you finally collapsed

under the weight of all its ghosts

those phantoms which haunt me still

I try and outrun them

but they are faster

I scream out to them

I let you go!

I let you go!

I let you go!

Be free from me

And I from you and the melancholia of our past

Free so we can live out the present

Free

to feel for someone else

Someone deserving of more than I can give

I let you go as my final act of love towards you

and the first of many towards myself