How Do I Love Thee?

I love thee…

…but I decided to stop counting, stop posting, stop this nonsense.

I’m stopping not because I’ve stopped loving you.
True love cannot be measured.

I started writing this exactly a month after I had confessed my love to you.
Exactly a month after you so gently rejected me for reasons we both know.

I heal through writing. And the longer I wrote about the things I love about you, the more I realized that I don’t need to have you bound in a romantic relationship with me. Our love for each other continues to live in our hearts. The odd soul-twin friendship we have is more than enough.

When I fully knew that in mind and in heart, I knew I could move on.

Right now, it’s bliss. I have a girlfriend who is very dear to me.

But as I still write in this blog despite having a new love, I felt it was like me continually looking over my shoulder to look at your shadow.

I don’t want to be unfair to my lover.