A Thousand Years

A thousand years, a thousand more

Have passed since,

I last saw of you.

And since then, all I have seen

Is my transformation,

Into a new me.

It's you who left me behind.

And I thought, I might never be able to,

Grow out of your shadow,

The fibre of your existence.

It was only when you left, that I realised

The amount of control

You had on my very being.

No matter, they called me a fool,

For being so dependent,

For being so naive and stupidly innocent.

Somewhere, deep down,

I too knew of something

Not being right,

But i had been too much into you,

In love with you,

That I failed to acknowledge the toxicity

Which had now been

The prime emotion between us.

I am glad that you left me,

For, I would have never gained the strength

To leave you.

I had been perhaps, too used to,

The negativity, you had unleashed in my life.

And now that,

It's been a thousand years, since you have gone

There's no turning back.

I would never wish to turn back.

Your departure,

Has made me understand what I deserve in life.

And now, I have embarked the journey

To achieve what I deserve,

And, there's no other way,

I would want it now.