If i had not let you go

[Biggus]

If I had not let you go
What would we be now?
The perfect couple?
Mr and Mrs Right?
Or sad reflections of ourselves

If I had not seen
That we were not right together
We would now be
Bitter and resentful
Fighting like old dogs
Scratching at each others wounds

Love made us blind
Your love for me was deeper
And so you were blinder
So it hurt you more
When I let you go

I was right to let you go
I didn’t want to hurt you
Though I know I did
But I would have hurt you more
And I would not have regretted it
If I had stayed

If I had not let you go
I would have broken you
Broken your spirit
As well as your heart
You would not now know
Loves true face
So I can tolerate your hate
To know you are truly happy

[blazeofglory]

This is a perfect poem, and I like the way you interpreted love and relationship. Of course the joy of letting go is measureless. We try to possess each other by institutionalizing marriage. We have written codes and consecrate them in order to bind two free souls by a bond of society,system and beliefs. Of course we must break through all these boundaries and incarcerations.

I always support this kind of relationship wherein two birds of love can meet, mate and nestle themselves in a nest of relationship but never get tied up by a chain of society.

Of course I am happy that you have thru this poem expressed what I really believe in.

[TheEarthIsRound]

A very compelling emotion--you have solidly conveyed the emotion to me and I am now filled with the heartbreak from the dilemma between rationality and humane emotion. To love is to give, to sacrifice; and I appreciate what it takes..

I especially like this verse

If I had not let you go
Love made us blind
Your love for me was deeper
And so you were blinder
So it hurt you more
When I let you go

It has a paradoxical effect from the words "it hurt you more", because perhaps the person who ultimately hurts more is the person who watches and decides the breakup.

Thank you.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Wow! This is a brave poem, brave in it self-condemnation... and brave, too, perhaps, in that it does not overtly speak of your own heartache, which I believe is very much just behind your words. Bravo!

[Biggus]

Thank you so much all of you