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Grow: a poem


Though I miss you something terrible,
I know my choice wasn’t a mistake
Because I’ve found myself in your absence
And that is something I had to do on my own.
I thought myself so independent,
Never reliant,
But looking back,
We were so dependent.
I’m not preposing you can’t grow with someone,
But instead of having our own vines to intertwine,
We bloomed together.
Now I’ve bloomed on my own
And love the life I’ve built myself.
It’s not perfect,
No garden ever is,
But I’ve grown so far and the progress is all of my own.
Yet with all the new,
I still yearn for you.
I wouldn’t take it all back,
Not at all,
But I hope maybe one day we’ll grow together,
Again.

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