And just like that, he's gone
When once she could not imagine
Growing old without him
How her thoughts of the future
Are filled with excitement and newness
All those months she longed and yearned
For one more kiss and one more hug
Like a puff of wind on a summer day
In the blink of an eye
And the beat of a heat
He's gone
And she's alive again, she breathes
She hears the birds again
She smells the flowers and feels the grass
She sees her future and tastes freedom
She doesn't realise straight away
What it is she's done, it takes time
For the enormity of it to click
Because after all the tears and rituals
All the reading and writing about it
It just happened without a thought
Without any effort at all on her part
It was so simple she hardly realised at all
That she had done what she didn't think
It would ever be possible to do
But the lightness of her heart
The weight that seemed to have vanished
From shoulders that had been bowed for years
Her back was straighter and her knees strong
And once again her smile was always there
The day she had dreaded so much
Was a day she received a gift after all
The greatest gift anyone could have given her
And she gave it to herself
She let him go
All the tears and anger and hurt and pain
Just fizzled away without her realising
She remembered who she was before
And she started again.
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