I loved you.
Still do, of course, although
that love has changed.
No longer filled with urgency,
no longer infused with needless pain.
No longer needing a response.
I’m moving forward now, into
a future I may not have yet imagined,
but have begun to create day by day.
A future no longer focused on you,
at last, taking charge of loving
myself. But remember that once,
I loved you.
4/10/24
Karen McCaskey 