The day we parted, it killed me. The echoing footsteps heading in opposite directions, the painful goodbye I muttered through a clenched jaw. You pleaded, you didn’t understand, and you may never know. It was for you, I broke your heart. But I left, in order for you to truly fly. You may never forgive me, you don’t have to. I just want you to know, I loved you, and I still do. It pained me just as much as it pained you to leave. But your happy now, married and a mother. That means I accomplished what I wanted. Now I can spend the rest of my life in peace. As an old man reminiscing of the days were he skipped in the meadows with his lover.