I don't know why I'm writing this here where I know for a fact you'll never find it... Maybe that's the point. Funny, isn't it? That after a decade I haven't gathered the guts not to tremble under your shadow.
I know what the reply would be anyways, kind, gentle, patient, worried and that would split me in twain. I prefer to think you have forgotten me, even if that is selfish.
The house is quieter now, less and less in it, day in and day out. The lights flicker, the sink is clogged, the bathroom leaks, the paint and even the mortar is falling off. In some places the roof is starting to cave in.
Don't go on walks every night as I used to either, don't have anyone or anything to do it with anymore.
I stopped drawing, stopped writing, stopped singing but I'm glad that you didn't even if you seem to have reached your apex already. You probably did before I even meet you, still I'm glad you don't torture yourself with the small things anymore, you always had the crispier, more gentle lines, with those little twirls and bends that made me crack a dopey smile.
Sorry if I wasted your time, if I was unreasonable, if I asked too much of something I'm not sure you were capable of giving, maybe at the time I thought I was being reasonable. In retrospect? I probably was being covetous, demanding, asphyxiating and even petty, I never accepted the plushie you made for me after all, but still, you were the first, and only person that listened to me from dusk to dawn, even when your schedule was tighter than mine.
I tried to find you in others, to emulate your patience, your magnanimity, but you can probably guess I came short. Always an inch short. Picked so many quirks from each attempt that you'd probably not recognize me anymore, which might be for the best.
I suppose I'm glad that before all is, was, said and done I got to listen to that recording I asked of you, so many, many years ago. Even when I got others to do it for you, it was eye opening.
It made it all click.
I guess that's why I stopped trying, with you, it clicked that I was the only one tugging at the rope, and asphyxiating us both, specially myself.
I didn't want you, I wanted a moment in time, seen through a blurry lens. I wanted more of what hooked me in, utterly and completely to the point I became asphyxiating, until I gave you all of my time, for that moment in time.
I'm sorry longears.
I probably won't be ever seeing you or talking to you again.
I'm going north. If not in a few weeks, next month. If not next month, the one after, but it is set in stone. I need to leave this place, I must leave this place. It has become a prison and I know I'll die here, bitter and miserable if I don't.
There's nothing for me here anymore.
I want to at least die, bitter and miserable, somewhere else, under a new sky, breathing a different air.
It was nice to have crossed paths with you. You made me who I am and broke me apart. You put in my tastebuds the exact flavour that I want to drown in for the rest of my life, however long that might be.
That's why I'm going north, as far as my feet can take me.
I want to feel snow between my fingers.
I want so much more, even if I'm not sure I deserve it I still want it.
Sorry.
I tried... At least I know for fact, that I tried.