It's Good

By Adithi Banerjee Tarafdar

It’s good we parted ways

We weren’t meant

To be together

Differences, all of them

Would have driven us apart

Eventually.

Good, we said our good byes

Till we meet again, you said.

I didn't agree to that though

Didn't wish to see you ever again

No, it ain’t my anger

Doing the talking but pain

That I couldn’t handle

When you disappeared

From my life

Not days not month’s

It took me years

To build myself again

Had to stop myself

From obsessing over you

Every second of every second

Had to love me a wee bit more

The turmoil within

Wasn't allowing me

To become what

I was destined for

I was shattered, broken, crushed

How funny, they say

Time heals all

But time didn’t sooth me

Made my wounds run deeper

Made my wounds all the more tender

When will this pain end?

I often wondered

Saw no end to the same

But now all of a sudden

I found peace

We parted ways

No, not suddenly though

This phase was meant to arrive

Sooner or later

We weren’t meant

To be together.

So now, I can start again

Where many moons ago I stopped

Blocked myself from moving forward

No, I ain’t blaming you

It was all my doing

Hence, I unstring myself from you

The metaphorical chain

Wrapping the two of us together

Is no more there

And I’m finally free to do me

Finally free to reach for the stars

Finally free to restart my journey

Into the unknown

Begin all over again

From where it last ended.

By Adithi Banerjee Tarafdar