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I am writing this with the heaviest heart, nothing good ever lasts forever; isn’t that what they say? Who would have thought our forever would be this short? Did we even have a chance to grow whatever it is that we had? I mope around thinking about what could have been, the things I ruined with my indiscretion. I still have the memories, of when we stayed up and talked late right until three. Our talks of the future having no clue of the things that life has in stock for us.

To you I am now another distant memory but for the hurt I caused I can only say sorry. I understand your pain because I have been there, I am still surprised I am the one that brought us here. Someday when your hurt is gone, when time has healed all of your wounds maybe we could meet as we earlier planned. Not to consummate our love because that will be a story long forgotten though I cannot trust my treacherous heart not to leap at the sight of you. Will your smile be as radiant as in the photos? Will your hug be as warm as you promised them?

I stand under the streetlights watching the lovers take their strolls, arm in arm they all lovingly glow. I cannot forget the pain that you helped me heal even with the thousands of miles between us. Forever I am grateful to you for making me laugh, a feat not even the ones near me could achieve. Your light came to conquer the darkness reminding me of the refreshing goodness of the light. I never thought I could want another human so passionately again but because of you, I have tasted love once again.

This is not goodbye as I write, it is simply me not wanting to tie you down. I know your heart still grieves from the pain I caused but I hope you would remember the smiles I also brought to your face. Right now more than ever because of you I want to believe the cliché of how to err is human and to forgive is divine. Wait a minute, you are but human just like me, and perhaps this forgiveness I ask of you is beyond you. I cannot tell you goodbye since you were never here, so I will simply close the door and go back into the dark. Tell me one thing though, did I imagine you?

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