It’s Okay To Choose Yourself Now
You used to think that because you felt this spark,
this pulse, this quiet chemistry,
that you had to chase it, relentlessly,
that because you loved, because you missed,
because you understood,
the weight was yours to carry.
You innocently believed you had to close the distance,
bridge the gap, hold on tighter,
to weave the two of you together, to make “us” last.
But now you are starting to see that love cannot be forced,
that longing cannot bend what isn’t meant.
It was never your work to contort or cling,
when you had already poured all of you.
So now you must learn to trust the gentle release,
to believe that life knows more than your will,
that what’s meant will stay,
and what isn’t will drift like dusk into night.
So lean into your softness,
into the quiet strength of surrender,
into the beauty of simply being.
Let it settle that you don’t have to strive so hard,
that by letting go, you make room for better,
for the unseen gifts that come in their own time.
I am just like you.
Here I stand, unburdened,
ready to cradle myself, to reclaim my own pulse.
So, it’s time to pour our love inward,
to fill the spaces we once left empty,
to hold the dreams we tucked away.
Choose yourself now,
learn that strength can wear softness,
that moving forward can mean standing still,
and that freedom, true freedom,
is found in letting go.