Where Love Heals

Today
I didn’t go back.

It doesn’t sound like much—
no grand moment,
no loud goodbye—

just a quiet decision
I made with myself
this morning.

One step.

Away from the place
that kept hurting me.

Away from the version of me
that kept hoping
you would choose me
if I just stayed long enough.

I felt it, though.

The pull.
The habit.
The echo of you
still living somewhere
inside my chest.

But I didn’t follow it.

Not today.

And maybe that’s what healing is—
not a clean break,
not a perfect ending—

just choosing,
again and again,
the path that leads
back to me.

So no—
I’m not fully there yet.

I still think of you.
I still feel the ache.

But today
I chose something different.

Today
I chose myself.

And maybe that’s all it takes—
one quiet decision
at a time.

One step
toward myself.

JMS