When Alone

found yourself alone & no longer scrutinized or criticized or made to feel guilty or made to stay up late worrying where the other was or made to worry about a so-called “future” or made to compromise one’s own dreams or made to share everything & get told that there is never enough or made jealous by the flirtings with others or ridiculed for “not trusting” or forced to fill oneself with the beliefs & pointless traditions of the other or forced to mingle with the family & friends of the other or found to need what one had never needed before this person came in to carve a place for themselves inside you.