We have travelled through epochs together. We have held hands supporting each other, carrying each other through trial after trial. Loving fiercely and surely like twin flames. Two people made of separate threads woven together with stories of pain and heartbreak, love and longing, joy and delight. Known each other through depths of intimacy, alive together in every shared experience, shining lights in the darkness for each other, encouraging each other to grow. Grow.Grow. But for now we have grown together as much as we can. We have known each other like no other. We have loved each other like no other.

We have fought each other, honing each other on the rough interior of life, like sand grit rasping on rough edges, changing each other into pearls. We have stuck together like glue unable to let the other go.

Let the other go.

For surely when that happens it would be like tearing the veins of our hearts, chasms ripping with unbearable pain. It will be like dying, letting go of each other, knowing that we cannot be together again. It will be like trying to draw breath into lungs that can no longer can hold air. All that will be left is a black void shaped like our shapes ,cemented with heartache and loneliness.

But darling we must. We must say goodbye, We must release the cords that bind us, cutting swiftly with a sharp knife. Letting go of all that was, opening space for what is to come.

Do not look back for if we do, we will not be able to leave.

Let me go and i will let you go. Keep only the love, the unending eternal love.

Goodbye my sweetest of hearts .

Gwendolyn Villebrun