There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me
The way that it was and could have been surrounds me

The pain that comes from learning to give up on someone hurts more than any other emotion I've ever felt.
To believe...and love...and want so much, only to realize that you see more in someone than they will ever see in themselves...
To consciously change the way you view the future, realizing that if you don't you will compromise the dreams you have for yourself...
Planning to walk away while they're still in your life not so much because there's still things to 'work on', but because a little part of you will hang on until the very last minute...the very last goodbye and hug and tear and conversation...the very last breath that leads to the moment when there is no other choice than for it to be....
over.