it's hard to let go

i try.

i try so hard sometimes.

but for what.

you have

to let people go

at some point,

release

them.

cut the cord.

they are who they are,

but you

aren't one of them.

you're different somehow.

you pick up

the phone when it rings,

you return the call, 

the text,

the e-mail.

despite all,

you never

stop

being friends.