living.

i thought i couldn’t live without you

it turns out

i wasn’t living when i was with you

i was hidden away

concealing the real parts of me

letting you tell me how i should be

leaving you was a fresh breath of air

it was freedom

allowing me to love myself

every part of myself

even the ones you told me couldn’t be loved

i will love them

every one of them

now i’m alive again

more myself again

than ever before