Dear Ex Boyfriend,

A year and a day and so many pieces have changed.

Friends, lovers, mentors, pass times, me.

A completely new world and way of life

All because of one painful sentence;

Because of you;

And it’s times like this where I feel I haven’t thanked you enough.

As this is what you gave me.

This is where your words led me.

To these people, these new friends and this new me,

To this new kind of happiness,

Different to anything I’ve ever felt before.

A place where I’m enough

Where what I believe in is okay

Where what I choose is acceptable

Where I can be at peace with myself and not need your approval.

So thank you.

Thank you for lying to me, making it more difficult to trust

Thank you for tearing down my love, building the wall that now has to be climbed

Thank you for leaving me out, allowing me to forget friendship that is not true

Thank you for giving me the ability to recognise my own beauty and be comfortable in it.

(Yes, I can now walk around with no clothes and a head held high.)

                                                                     So thank you. 

Forever in your debt, 

Ex Girlfriend. 

13.11.12 ~ The Tainted