I must let you go!

There was a time when I was complete, content in my own existence
It was before I met you; before I came to know the other dimensions.

I had a heart of liquid glass then and it echoed most beautifully
I had the sole privilege to the inner music and I simply was!
That was when I was the happiest wandering child of wilderness
I sought nothing in particular but the creation in its glory.
I made love to the moon and the wind whispered rainy secrets
the mountains and I shared a misty cloud covered reverie
and I danced with the Sun to the tunes of the northerly chill
but the Ocean, to the Ocean; to him, my heart truly belonged!

And then unsuspecting, I happened upon the fated moment
most unwittingly opened a portal in the time-space fabric..
Lo, you arrive, riding on the silver beams of moonlight
with fireflies for eyes, a knowing smile of secret hopes
and a look of daggers, of the most unkind quality
sharp and potent, they cut through the thickest of the layers,
and there sprang forth a storm, the glass burst open, so did
the latent desires buried beneath the silence of ages.

My heart, Oh my tender, fragile, clementine heart
it turned into a cherry blossom caught in a fierce gale..
with each breath, it was losing the delicate petals
and it was clear, inevitable: the eventuality, the destiny..
was there ever a happy ending in the entire human history?
So I must let you go, let you be free, because I know..
I already know.. I can see through the same fabric warp
that brought you to me, you see, I was reluctant from the start.
because I could see the future and it spelled doom, for me and for you.

But, my dearest stranger, I must thank you, thank you for
the heartache, thank you for the dreams and the possibilities.
and thank you for my new found appreciation of having wanted..
and I shall say to you one last thing: "Better to have lived" !!