Let Him Rest

Written on: June 13, 2021

Learn to stifle the laughter

Learn to stop looking back

Learn to not search him up

Learn to step back and take a breath

You were all over his name for longer than you should've been

Keeping hope and carrying love for someone who rarely showed it

Look forward instead

The possibility of future love is endless

Pay attention not to the hurt

But to the girl who overcame it

Let him rest

Give him space to breathe

He could've tried harder if he ever wanted to love me

Don't look up

Don't look at the stars

Curse his name and his sister for being last straws

Learn to inhale and exhale

Don't think of what could've been

Don't look at old pictures and imagine a different situation

I know that you're bored

I know you say looking at her doesn't hurt

But for your own sake

Stop identifying every flaw even when there's none

So lay him down to rest

In a beautiful little suit

The blue like his old sweater

The redness of a blush from a girl hopelessly Enamored

Lay him in the coffin

Let him finally sleep

Tired from overworking

From lost nights of sleep

You'll never know if it hurt him

But you know it hurt you

So for your own sake and no one else's

Find happiness according to your own terms

You don't need a partner

You don't need to be in love

To have or to hold

To borrow or to grow old

Push away their expectations

Of what he thought was a meaning

Instead know you have yourself

And that's what makes life worth living