Layout by: Amara Dela Cruz
Published by: Chloe Barcelona
Date Published: October 25, 2024
Time Published: 12:04 PM
Category: Prose
Theme: Moving past all the hurt.
Buried deep down all this anger was once love. Of course it was. You never let just anyone have the power to ruin you whole. The anger now that I feel is only the remains of an experience that once meant everything to me.
Perhaps one day we will meet again at an empty cafΓ©. We won’t be the same person as we were, and we won’t try to be. We’ll order different drinks—never what we used to. One of us will initiate small talk, not as the same two people who once shared everything, but as individuals living new lives. I will tell you I’m doing good, you will tell me you have never been happier, and I will only smile.
We’ll sit at different tables, separated by something more than just physical space. We’ll look back on who we were, reminisce on things we used to think were so important, and we’ll only laugh. Not because it hurts or because of regret, but because we’ve both grown beyond it. And in that swift moment, that’ll be enough.
I will not find someone better than you, but I don’t need to. I will find someone better for me, someone better suited for the person I have grown into. You were right for me then, in that version of myself, but all that has changed. I will find someone who fits the person I am now. That’s the peace I have made with it all.
Love does not always have to turn into hate once it’s done. Sometimes, it just quietly fades away, leaving room for some new thing—some new moment to grow. And when we meet again, when our paths ever decide to align, all I will do is smile, not because I’ve buried all that we had or have forgotten it all, but because I’ve finally found what I have always been seeking, something that fits the life that I am living now. And that will be enough.
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