My Favorite Nightmare

Maybe it's perfectly normal
to have a person you will never forget
To have a memory you will never erase
or a feeling whose intensity will never fade

Maybe it's absolutely human
to long for what already is gone
To choke on that bittersweet pang of pain
or to be unable to let go of what could have been

Maybe they are not there to make your life miserable
maybe that is what life is exactly about

That no matter how the world tells you
that you can't be happy without moving on,
Maybe some things are not meant to move on
the past is part of the present, and will be of the future

Maybe there are truly people who will come only once
but are there to stay stubbornly inside your heart
Maybe they are not possible to replace,
and you will forever look for them anyway.

Maybe it is no use fighting the unrequited love off
or denying the existence of a love that should have been lost
Maybe pride or false hopes get in the way of acceptance
and the only way to be true is to accept what you cannot change

Maybe there are things you cannot change
and it may not be your fault, but it is what is destined
Maybe happily ever after are not the only endings
or even if they are, there will always that three dots
in place of an afterthought that maybe just maybe
what wasn't meant to be is what you would truly prefer

Even if what wasn't meant to be
does not truly exist
and your... not unhappiness... but dissatisfaction
is a mere ghost of an expectation lost in time.