← Back to the wall

To Jusdine Rio Nolasco

Leaving as an Act of Love

Perhaps the bitterest form of goodbye is to still carry love in your heart for someone who has already chosen to walk away.

So I will let you remain within me as something I once cherished, but will never hold again. Because even though there is still love left behind, there are wounds that have taught me that leaving can also be a way of loving you—and, above all, loving myself.
— L