time

you can't hurt me anymore, but you do, just by existing. the words you said so long ago have stuck in my head, mostly the bad ones of course. the hurtful things you did and said. the time you choked me, left a mark. and i went back. i gave it a chance. i gave you chance. the times i wished i hadn't chosen that path. wished i had passed you over. but i didn't. you change my life in so many ways. it took me a long time to recover. but i did. my life grew. my world evolved. i have so much more. so many better things. i would be nowhere now if i were still with you. i don't want you back. i'm content with you having been part of where i needed to be now. part of that process of realising what i didn't want to know what i did want.
and what i want, is what i have NOW!!

  ~the end~