To Ex Best Friend

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Dear C,
You will no longer have a hold on me. You can no longer hurt me. You have taken over my life for too long. I loved you, needed you, and most of all respected you. I would have given my life for you. My feelings were deeper than friendship and that made your words and actions cut deeper and stick longer. I needed you and you left me to wither away. I was never enough for you and now I know that it wasn't my fault. I am not just my struggle. I am not just my appearance. I am not just my sexual orientation and gender identity. I am a complex human being who has issues and obstacles like everyone else but also has a heart and soul too eager to forgive at the bat of an eye. I am a person who is actually interested when I ask "How was your day?" I am a person who doesn't settle for just "fine" as an answer. I loved you and probably still do but I do not deserve the pain and torment you drilled into me. Please find your way back to the person I loved when we would sit alone at the beach together and just talk and laugh. Truly listen to yourself and those around you.
Always,
Sean

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