I Let You Go to Save Us
We stopped laughing the way we used to do,
The “I love you’s” started feeling untrue.
I saw the cracks before they spread too wide,
So I broke my own heart — just to protect your side.
I watched us fade while screaming inside,
Like drowning slow with no place to hide.
So I shattered the world we built with care,
Just to save the pieces still left there.
But now the silence cuts like jagged glass,
A hollow echo of a love that couldn't last.
The ghost of us haunts every empty room,
A lingering shadow of impending doom.
I carry the weight of all we've lost,
A heavy cross, a bitter cost.
Your absence is a ache I can't erase,
A permanent ache I can’t replace.
And in the dark, I wonder if you feel,
The ache that’s real, the wounds that heal.
Or are you gone, just a distant star,
Fading further, leaving scars?
I wish I could undo the pain,
Unwrite the past, break free from the chain.
But love, it’s brutal, it’s raw, it’s true—
And sometimes, we just can’t make it through.
So I did what was needed to do.
Copyright © Ella Wolfe | Year Posted 2025
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