I Found Myself While Losing You

It was exactly on that day…
On that day I set out on the journey.
I did not know where I was going,
Nor how I would get there.
Without saying farewell,
Without embracing,
Without seeing you smile for the last time,
I left…
I was alone now.
A new life,
New people…
But there was a painful truth:
This “new life”
Was in fact the life I had lost.
That is, it was not new.
It was mine…
Yet it had never truly existed for me.
I knew this,
Yet I still called it “a new life.”
I am beginning now
My new life.
And to you…
Thank you.
For in losing you,
I found myself.