Taking Off the Rose-Colored Glasses

Maybe it is going to be onto better and brighter  
Things. There is a brighter smile and a better  
Life without you being right in the center of  
The storm. Every step away from you is lighter.  
Darling, you let me take off the heavy sweater  
Without suffocating me. You taught me to love  
 
Myself more than I could ever love anyone  
Or anything else. It is like life has a whole new  
Meaning without you to steer or guide it where  
You want it to be going. Darling, it is like the sun  
Has come from behind the dark and stormy blue  
Sky. I know that there is way more oxygen and air  
 
To breathe in without the toxins surrounding  
Me. I used to think I was making some terrible  
Or awful mistake, but I was right in cutting ties  
This time around. My heartbeat was pounding  
Loudly like drums, but everything was bearable,  
Including the pain. The tears cleansed my eyes  
 
And I could finally see things for how they really  
Were. I was not living or watching through rose  
Colored glasses anymore when things were perfect.  
Everything was no longer feeling ice cold or chilly  
Like the windowpanes in the snowstorm. I chose  
My life over everyone else’s. Everything was clicked  
 
And locked into place, but I knew that they could  
Not stay that way forever when things were going  
Around in circles instead of being straight or linear.  
I just had to let things go and drift away like wood  
Floating along the river stream. I was just showing  
That the world’s beauty was going to be way shinier.