Inhale.

“I have to go”

The words kept ringing in my ear as I felt the end of a timeline. It was as loud as crashes of the waves to the seashores and as quiet as an unlit candle. Darkened surroundings with numbing silence.

Exhale.

“I need to go”

Inhale.

I held on clinging for dear life begging for him to remember the beautiful landscape of a future we built on paper. Slowly I close my eyes knowing that my tear drops are smudging the blue print of what was now a fantasy.

Exhale.

“it has to be her. Nobody else”

Inhale.

The numbing sensation coursed through my body down to my fingertips as I traced his lips that has given me the sweetest kisses but muttered the most painful whispers.

As I exhale, I let go of myself. That self that loved him without limits. I opened my eyes and stared at the self that I wish to drown. I lower my eyes to watch her drown to the depths of the abyss, carrying with her the letters we once wrote to each other of beauty and of wonder.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Loving you had consequences.