#lettinggo poems on Hello Poetry

Kalliope 6m

Goodbye

I didn't say goodbye
I couldn't find the strength
No, I took the cowards way
And slipped out in the rain
I had a lot I wanted to say to you
About the way I've been feeling
I decided I couldn't say it
Out of fear your response interrupts my healing
Maybe you'd have begged me to stay
Or worse you'd have urged me to go
Neither response would be what I want
So I had to leave without letting you know

I know in my heart we will never speak again
There's part of me that hopes that isn't true
But I expressed my goals and intentions
Whatever does, or doesn't, come next,
Will be up to you.

#love #heartache #endings #lettinggo #longdistance #ache #grief

Arna 1h

Choosing Peace Over Persistence

"Sometimes, it's better to leave in between rather than to stay till the end bearing the pain."

"Not every ending is worth reaching.
Sometimes, peace begins at goodbye."

#lettinggo #halfwayhealing #walkingawayisokay #choosingpeace #healinghurtstoo #unfinishedbutfree #emotionalstrength #noteveryendingishappy #innerpeacejourney #silentgoodbyes

Kalliope 15h

Dry Up Your Tears, it’s Time to Go.

Staring at a block button
Like it holds the secrets I crave
Like it offers my heart freedom,
Like it gives my mind escape.

My fingers just won't press it
So odd that now I hesitate
I've pressed it a million times before
In my mind it's what I have to do,
My heart just doesnt want to participate.

But she needs to.
She has never led me right
It's time she does retire
She is always late
And keeps everything on a wire.

That's not how we're living anymore
We are going one foot in front of the other,
I can't rest at closed doors anymore
It's my own light that I smother.

I desperately don't want to say goodbye
But I cannot be your friend
You said true love never goes away
It morphs but never ends.

I can't have you around me
I hope things are different everyday
I can't hold on to what's not there
I have to unlearn how to care.

I sound like a broken record-
My writing even worse
If I have you near me
I'll never get out of the "I miss you" curse.

Missing isn't living
And it hurts me every hour
I've reread every word
And still my feelings aren't sour.

I really want to hate you
So I could just slam the door in your face
But I can't find the justification
And I'd never hurt you on purpose, just in case.

You said that real love never leaves
That it will stay with me forever
Well I'm sitting here as it drips out my eyes
Wishing I never felt it, ever.

That's it
That's all I'll say
I no longer give myself permission to wish for things I'll never be able to fix

#heartache #longing #lettinggo #movingon #release #ache

Dency 20h

Nowhere

I have all this love
And nowhere to put it
It's rotting inside me
Soft,warm
Unspent.

I reach out in dreams
But wake up alone
His name buried in my throat
Like a secret
I was not allowed to say.

He didn't stay
But the love did
And now it grows wild
Inside a heart
With no one left
To give it to.

#lettinggo #imissyou #istillloveyou #healing

Kalliope 23h

Barely Anything

I’m barely a poet,
yet you’re still my muse.
I say it doesn’t hurt-
that my purpose is views.
Steps I take forward
toward moving along
make you more distant,
and that feels ******* wrong.

I know that you know and
it could never be the same.
I just have to figure out
how to remove ache from your name.
The letters, they hurt
when they sit side by side-
and to hear them out loud?
A blast to my mind.

Because I like to spiral,
to wonder and dream.
I erased our messages-
yet here you come on my screen.
You can’t give me an inch-
I will dream a whole mile.
I’ve been that way always,
since I was a child:
hoping and loving
and dreaming for better.
I hate accepting reality-
and this ****** weather.

I can romanticize rain
and thunder and storms,
pretend they can heal me,
make me accept new norms.
But I miss my lover,
so quiet, so sweet,
and leaving that love
drowning feels like defeat.

But it's not romantic, just fated design
And it's just a Wednesday spent acting perfectly fine

#heartache #longing #love #movingon #lettinggo #daydreaming #overthinking #restless

Joshua Phelps 23h

let this love (live in the past)

lately,
i've been down—
and i don't understand
why it still haunts me.

i thought
this would be
the last time.

i was ready
to move on,
but there was
one last storm
i didn’t account for.

i know—
pain isn’t linear,
and sometimes,
the thunder rolls
before the rain
takes form.

but love
was never meant
to last,

not today,
not tomorrow—
not even
if you asked.

so baby,
i ask of you:
let this love
live in the past.

there won’t be
a final act—
just two hearts
moving forward,
intact.

let this love (live in the past)

a quiet goodbye.

not out of anger—just out of finally knowing when to let go.

this one’s about the storm you didn’t see coming,

the closure you had to create yourself,

and the kind of love that’s better left behind.

#breakup #lettinggo #healing #poetrycommunity #goodbye #movingon #loveandloss #grief #pastlovers #poetryheals

Kalliope 1d

Snippets #16

You'd think I'd learned my lesson,

So many years ago,

To never add anything new,

I've never let anything go.

1830 now
1830 tomorrow
1830 forever

#nostalgic #love #heartache #lettinggo #holdingon

Emery Feine 1d

by fall i must leave

growing and fall is all i do
stuck to the branch of this tree
i sway in the summer breeze
but by fall i have to leave

always arriving, always leaving
swaying in the summer breeze
i want to hold on for a bit longer,
but by fall i must leave

i yearn for an eternal summer
i yearn for winds like these
my whole life an act of letting go
because by fall i must leave

but why would the dreams of something so small, like a leaf, be fulfilled?

#leaf #love #falling #fall #lettinggo #summer #abandonment

Dency 4d

The grief without a grave

No farewell,no funeral
Just a love that died
Without dying
And a girl still dressed on mourning
For a man who never came.

#love #grief #lettinggo #poetry #healing

Kalliope 7d

Shut Down

I wish I lacked empathy.
I don’t want to feel.
I don’t want to see signs.
I don’t want to be real.

One minute, I’m fine—
then my soul explodes in my chest.
I wish I didn’t see that.
But I did. And now, no rest.

I wish I could shrug,
say “that’s not my concern,”
but every flicker of pain
Causes my stomach to hurt.

I notice the silence,
the shift in your tone—
there's nothing in your voice
It's all I think about alone.

This is why I'm standoffish and stick to just me
There's no ache in loneliness
At least not the kind that stings

Maybe I'll make friends but that feels like betrayal
These self imposed rules- a safe fortress failure

I wish I didn’t feel
At least not to this extent
My day was going so good
But I ruined it again

But I'm healing
So I have to feel it
I'll be fine tomorrow
And then I'll repeat it

#lettinggo #holdingon #heartache #grief #overthinking #emotions