you remember that bracelet you gave me?
you probably don’t. you were going to throw it out, and then asked if i wanted it, and gave it to me.
it meant nothing to you. and it meant something to me.
i wore it every day since you gave it to me. it’s been over a month. it never came off. not when i slept. not when i showered. not when i went out and wore better bracelets. it always stayed on.
it was a purple ‘livestrong’ bracelet. it seems to have gone through a lot: it got a bit dirty and there’s a crack forming ever so slightly. it’s been on me through one of the craziest months.
and today, i took it off. it’s hanging on my bulletin board, but i took it off. that’s important for me. extremely important. i had a night of feeling worthless because of you. and last night, i realized that i’d just have to forget about you the way you forgot about me. and then i looked down at my wrist this today, and i saw the bracelet still there.
it took me the whole day to take it off.
but here we are. it’s 11:45pm, and i took the bracelet off. i know the journey to letting go of you, of accepting that i have to and can and should and will do this, is not going to be as easy as the one you went down when you forgot about me. but i still will.
my wrist has the tanline from the bracelet. it seems like a scar, the difference of my skin seems to scream at me. screaming and telling me that something is missing, put that bracelet back on.
but unlike a scar, tanlines fade.
and so will you. goodbye.
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