Maybe this is what it feels like
to have a happy ending.
Before, I longed to have time
to myself, to like who I liked,
to love who I loved,
and I always do that now.
We have no secrets now,
and we argue when we want to-
but never in a real fight.
Not like before,
when survival was what mattered.
And yet,
we never take anything for granted.
It is a hard-earned victory.
Sometimes when I am alone,
I think of the past.
Of the choices I've made
and of the regrets I have
lingering inside me.
I used to think
that there was never hope.
But there was.
And that's why
when I wake up to
the sunrise
and step to the balcony
with the friends I love
while we each in turn
accept the past,
we never forget
the future.
