I Hope You Stay

but the most important thing to remember is all the thoughts and feelings are yours. you may bend, but you will not break, and the light of a new day will ease all the ache. no matter the distance or what may come your way, from my heart to yours, i hope you stay

i hold all this blame
about how badly
things between us ended
i dream so vividly
of our conversations
late at night
but despite all the reasons
i shouldn’t think of you
i still do
it was just bad timing
i told myself
but bad timing happened
time and time again
and after all the pain
maybe it wasn’t the timing
maybe we were just two people
bad for each other

thinking back now, even after all the time you’ve been gone and everything we’ve been through, what broke my heart that night was when you said, 'you’ll find someone new'