I hope you're happy.

And I mean that. I hope that you're happy and life is treating you well.
I hope you made a choice that will move you forward and things are now going swell.

For a long time I saw myself included in that picture. That picture of your future life.

I saw myself standing by your side at your wedding wiping your tears as well as my own, my beautiful bride.
Or I saw myself cheering you on at your graduation or some other major life event beaming with pride.

Or I pictured just being a part of your life,
I never thought our friendship would cause me this much strife.

Now all I see is pictures of your life as it passes by and leaves me behind.
In some cases now we're not even Facebook friends so updates are hard to find.

Regardless of how things turned out I hope you know that I still wish the very best for you.

Are there some days where a song or an old photo pops up and pains me to no end,
as I think of what could of been?
Of course.

Are there some nights that the question of why tears me to shreds,
and I lay there crying in my bed?
Yes.

But I'm also a firm believer in everything happens for a reason,
and for awhile there we had a truly wonderful season.
A season of friendship and fun and memories made,
that I would never trade.
I'm thankful for those times and the purpose they served,
and I try to remind myself that this pain I feel is nothing that either one of us deserved.

I hope it needed to happen so that you could live the best life you can,
and if I was somehow standing in the way I understand.
I'll never forget you or the place you had in my heart,
and there's a small part of me that's always hoping our friendship can go back to how it was at the start.

I believe in you now, and I believed in you then,
Even if our friendship had to come to an end.

Because your heart and happiness matters and means something to me,
And if I'm no longer a part of that it's time for me to set you free.