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In Conclusion I loved with clean hands, with a heart that didn’t know how to pretend. While I was choosing you, you were choosing differently, returning to me as if loyalty could be divided and still be called love. You lived in two worlds and let me doubt myself in one. You denied the truth until my intuition learned to scream in the dark. I blamed my worth for your betrayal, shrinking myself to explain your lies. The cheating changed me not by breaking me, but by teaching me how deeply I deserve peace. I lost sleep, not dignity. I lost illusions, not value. I lost nothing that was ever mine. And now that I’m leaving, I am not leaving in anger. I am leaving with my eyes open, with the truth fully named and no desire to argue with it anymore. I am leaving what betrayed me, what lied to me, what asked me to shrink so it could stay comfortable. I leave without wishing you harm, and without wishing you well. Some endings don’t need blessings, they need boundaries. This chapter ends here. Not because it meant nothing, but because I matter more. What I carry with me is mine: my faith, my softness, my discernment, the strength it took to walk away without needing you to understand. From here on, I choose peace without apology. I choose a love that does not wound. I choose a life that does not require my silence to survive. And how exciting, how thrilling, how joyous it is! The heavens are rejoicing with me. I have waited for the day I didn’t love you anymore. How amazing! Hey, Mamma Mia, watch me go again!
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Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM UTC
And now that I'm leaving
In Conclusion I loved with clean hands, with a heart that didn’t know how to pretend. While I was choosing you, you were choosing differently, returning to me as if loyalty could be divided and still be called love. You lived in two worlds and let me doubt myself in one. You denied the truth until my intuition learned to scream in the dark. I blamed my worth for your betrayal, shrinking myself to explain your lies. The cheating changed me not by breaking me, but by teaching me how deeply I deserve peace. I lost sleep, not dignity. I lost illusions, not value. I lost nothing that was ever mine. And now that I’m leaving, I am not leaving in anger. I am leaving with my eyes open, with the truth fully named and no desire to argue with it anymore. I am leaving what betrayed me, what lied to me, what asked me to shrink so it could stay comfortable. I leave without wishing you harm, and without wishing you well. Some endings don’t need blessings, they need boundaries. This chapter ends here. Not because it meant nothing, but because I matter more. What I carry with me is mine: my faith, my softness, my discernment, the strength it took to walk away without needing you to understand. From here on, I choose peace without apology. I choose a love that does not wound. I choose a life that does not require my silence to survive. And how exciting, how thrilling, how joyous it is! The heavens are rejoicing with me. I have waited for the day I didn’t love you anymore. How amazing! Hey, Mamma Mia, watch me go again!
In Conclusion, I've never been happier ♡.
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23/F/Johannesburg
Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM UTC
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