2- rebuilding

I was broken, but I didn't let him keep me down.

I knew all along that there would come a time when he wouldn't be around.

Yet I stayed; I allowed him to hurt me,

until pain and regret and emptiness were the only things I could see.

Rebuilding took some time.

I had to find the motivation to remove everything "him" from my mind.

But it was worth it after all,

because one day, a stranger smiled at me as I walked through the hall;

a stranger that I had met before, but never gotten to know.

And I never saw it coming;

never could have imagined all the places we would go.