BEST FRIEND

I love how we tell each other our secrets

and feel safe with our shallow side

I love that the outside world only knows

our deep and compassionate side.

I love that in the darkness I can see

your tears and you can see mine.

I love that when it hurts the most

Together and individually we still shine.

We take adventures

Enjoy the climb

Eat every morsel

Dance in the divine

Life is full of belly laughs and stopping time

Remember the night we stayed up

looking beyond the milky way

all of a sudden we were smaller

than the Whos in Whoville

I said you were my best friend

And I meant it, every time

But then we let go

Set each other free

find out who we want to be

Not having to answer to anyone

Not having to put on the face

Takes away the insecurity

Provides me the space

To look in the mirror and

Believe in what I see

You let me go

Allowed me to be free

I can finally look in the mirror

And I’m proud to be me

I let you go 
allowed you to be free

All the scars and imperfections

No longer wanting to fill the void

I still don’t know

how to be me

When there are two

or even three

What does compromise mean?

You want me to change

After finding the happiness?

Learning to be me

with the freedom from you

Was easy to see

Learning to be us

Is much more difficult

Maybe it was the abandonment

The loneliness, the fear of the beast

That taught me to be selfish

Maybe it was just

How I was born.

Selfish and free