5/18/2023 King

I don’t get to take you with me

Moving forward means leaving you

With each step, my heart tears some more

Breaking my own heart is showing you kindness

Giving you the compassion, you have so effortlessly given me

I’ve been mulling over the reasons why it has to be now

Why is this the last chapter you’re in?

This wasn’t the plan

I was working to create our home

I wonder if you came into my life to help me build

Never intending to stay

You knew I needed your energy to make it

Is this you telling me I no longer need you?

Because I don’t believe that’s true

You’ve carried me this far

I don’t think I can take it the rest of the way

I don’t see how

And honestly, I hesitate to do it without you

I’m ashamed of the hesitation

I wish I was braver

I want what’s best for you

Even if it leaves me in pieces…