to be loved

They say to be loved is to be changed.

Changed for the better, I presume.

But what happens 

When the one you love doesn’t love you anymore

And the change was all for not. 

Or the new you can’t exist in a reality that the one you love is no longer a part of.  

You learn to let go. 

You learn to unlove. 

To unlove the person who made you feel that, for the first time, you could be loved

Wanted.

You go back,

revert 

Not to who you were before you were wrapped in the sweet embrace of adornment, 

No, she is gone.

 

You come out, changed again

Perhaps colder, an emotional wall built so high that no one dares to climb it. 

But stronger, nonetheless. 

For to be loved is to be changed, and to love is to let go- 

To let go and become new.