Release Your Hold

Every time you push, I pull right back with equal force. There is no calm before the storm. There is only massive, crashing waves of anger and despair. There are silent tears shed in the bed where I lie next to you. You pretend to be asleep and not hear the choking sobs that wrack my body. I wake up the next morning and pretend that everything is fine. If you love me, let me go so I can learn to move on and know what it is to live without you. Let me move on, so I can learn to forget you as my other half. At first it may feel like you have torn a part of me right from my chest, but it can only begin to mend itself if you release your hold on the broken, dying heart in your hand and allow me to remember how to be a person on my own. Let me release my hold on you that has twisted you into this angry, spiteful person that you don't even recognize in the mirror. And once we have parted ways, remind me to forget you and us. Remind me and yourself that this is for the best. Forgetting me will help you return to yourself. Forgetting you will give me serenity that I forgot could exist. Release me and I will release you. Forget me so that I can remember myself. If you love me, you will understand that letting go is the only option that we have.