If you let go you can heal
To stay would be to keep hurting
Although it's hard you must be strong
In the long run it's for the best
At first it'll hurt – maybe even scar
But the pain will slowly fade away

All these things you told me.
All this to confide in me.
To reassure me. Strengthen me.
The pain has not lessened.
I am unable to simply let go.
I know it may be wrong.
I've heard the warnings before.
The pain and the silence and the tears return.
With or without my heart still bleeds.
An acute loneliness of still to come.