Open Letter To Lost Love (And Jars Of Vomit)
Where did you go? It’s like an essential part of my being which was hurting me bad finally got expelled, fell off, got removed. Why am I dwelling on this relief with any pining?
The relief from pain has free’d me to focus on my whole self. And I can redirect the energy I was spending holding on to a dangling limb that was ready to fall off.
Of course Youre more than an amputated limb. I dont mean to say I ever thought of you as mine or less than a separate whole creature. You are so YOU that i never thought of you as “my” anything. All this is stupid metaphor.
It comes down to lopsided love. I wanted you to love and crave my company as much as I loved and craved you. That was never going to happen; you sought my company less and less the last two years, and even then what you wanted was a ride, money, food, booze, a place to sleep, a half-desired blow job…I could’ve been any supplier to you. I felt worse than used: I felt 3rd or 4th choice, GENERIC. My intelligent side knew. My dumbass side loved right on against all warning and pain.
I hate throwing up, I hate letting go.
So. Why do i wonder where you are? Maybe i don’t. I at least don’t want to know what you’re actually doing or who with. I don’t want reconnection: that would be sewing back on a rotten limb YOU cut off. Or what I threw up. Like saving vomit in a jar because someone died and its all you have left of them. Or loving the pain they caused because it’s all they gave you.
Maybe I want to know where You are to avoid running face first into our bio hazardous waste. In that respect, your whereabouts matter to me as a coward of confrontation. I hope time and space strengthen me. I don’t believe you are gone forever, so at least if I know where You are, nothing more, I can stay away from collecting jars of vomit, dirt you pissed on, amputated limbs. Until the Collector in me moves on to healthier hobbies.
We both move better apart, we run better. Flowing, not stagnant and rotting. Henry Miller said he loved all flow, even dirty gutters.
I hope I never see you again. The separation, the airless YOU ARE APART existential void would kill me.
I still love you. Where you are doesn’t matter as long as it’s not here.