I Am Done Trying to Get You!!

I am done trying to get you,  

To chase the shadows of what we once knew.  

I have wandered through your silences,  

Hoping that, somehow, I'd break through.  

I have twisted my heart into knots,  

Bent over backwards, lost in thought.  

Always waiting for a word,  

A glance, a sign that I was heard.  

But you were always just out of reach,  

Like a wave pulling back from the beach.  

I stretched myself too thin,  

Trying to fit where I don't belong within.  

Your love was like a flickering flame,  

I held my breath, whispered your name.  

But I was always standing in the cold,  

Watching that flame slowly grow old.  

I gave you my tears, my sleepless nights,  

Hoping that one day you'd see the light.  

But I can't keep giving when there's no return,  

My heart, for too long, has started to burn.  

So I am done trying to get you,  

Done hoping for the old and the new.  

It's time I let go of what was never mine,  

And heal this heart, line by line.  

Because love shouldn't be a one-way street,  

It shouldn't be about who concedes defeat.  

I deserve someone who reaches back,  

Not someone who turns and fades to black.  

So I am done trying to get you,  

My heart is tired, my soul is through.  

I’ll find my peace, and learn to stand tall,  

Without you, I will not fall.  

The story we wrote is now complete,  

And I will walk away, on my own two feet.

- Aditya Dube