the scent of you

The truth is, that sometimes the only way you can keep loving a person is to let them go.

I could have stayed until resentment sickened me.

I could have strained to keep you until I wore my heart weary.

We could have been together, but apart.

Or perhaps we could have been better... loved better. but no, i doubted...

So it's over

while I can still smile at the scent of you in my bedsheets.