To my old flame,

They say that distance can make people stronger. However, our predicament has only proven
otherwise. I, too, have felt much loneliness and pain due to our separation. Emotions are what
makes us humans beautiful, but all blessings must have a curse that comes along with it.
Writing this letter to you has been especially hard for me since it means that I would have to tell
you the whole painful truth. The circumstances we were faced with did not give us the adequate
time to have any closure, so allow me to let you know my deepest thoughts.

Watching you leave me that day felt like having a hundred arrows stab me at the same time. I
had always loved being loved by you, and the mere thought of not having you by my side
suffocated me. At first I thought that nothing could possibly separate us, that you would be the
one beside me when I am on my deathbed. Life had other plans. The world hasn’t been kind to
the both of us, and due to that we have both changed in our own horrible ways. Evenings that
used to be filled with affectionate banter and lovely conversations about both the complicated
and the mundane became burdensome as we would have squabbles that became clashes.
Misunderstandings filled our days, and all our pent-up anger caused us to become
dysfunctional.

One day the biggest blow to our relationship came crashing. I felt that both of us saw it coming. I
admit that I was just waiting for something like that to happen, something so serious that we
would not even try to fix it in any way. It was inevitable given how volatile we were towards each
other. We reached our breaking point, and just decided to end things abruptly. You allowed the
taxi to take you a great distance from me, all without even sparing a single glance. I have lost
track of how long it has been since we parted ways. I feel like I have been frozen in the passage
of time, not being able to move forward and continue living. The consequence of being so loved
by someone is that you forget how to live without that person.

I saw your poem just this morning. That was when I realized that none of us really closed this
chapter yet. The poem expressed how you truly felt, so it is only right that I do the same by
writing this letter to you. Just know that I think we truly need to close this chapter of our life.
Nothing good will come out of staying in an unfulfilled chapter.
Take this as a farewell so that we may be able to live on with our lives not imprisoned by the
lingering poison of separation. Distance does make people stronger, but that is only possible if
we end this chapter properly. Our paths may meet again in the distant future, but we must come
to terms that we need time to heal on our own. Please choose yourself and to be happy, so I
could choose the same for myself.