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Just because
Just because I’m hurting
Doesn’t mean I’m weak.
Just because you left me
Doesn’t mean I cannot sleep.
Just because you broke me
Doesn’t mean I won’t move on.
I can learn to live again,
I can learn to carry on.
I’ve learned to see a depth in me
I never saw before.
It all became much clearer
When you walked out the door.
My inner strength grew stronger
With each day I stood alone,
And piece by piece I’m finding
The woman I once owned.
Things I couldn’t see back then
Are clearer to me now.
I lost myself somewhere with you,
But I’m finding me somehow.
I’m beginning to remember
Who I was before I was yours,
Before I lost myself in us,
Before we closed those doors.
The simple things in life with us
Became a hit and miss.
The things that once came easily
Became the things we’d miss.
I’m not the same old girl you knew
When I was thirty-four.
I’ve lived, I’ve loved, I’ve hurt enough
To know I deserve more.
I fought for you, I fought for us,
I fought until I tore.
You’re not worth fighting for
With your foot in and out the door.
I won’t spend another moment
Begging you to choose.
Because when someone cannot choose you,
You’ve got nothing left to lose.
Just because I still might cry
Doesn’t mean I want you back.
Just because my heart still hurts
Doesn’t mean my strength will crack.
You may have left me broken,
But broken doesn’t mean gone.
I’ll gather every piece of me
And somehow carry on.
I’m not the girl at thirty-four
Who thought forever meant forever.
I know that love can fall apart
No matter how long you’re together.
You walked away and left behind
What you thought you’d taken from me—
But the woman I had lost for years
Is finally breaking free.
So just because I’m hurting
Doesn’t mean that I am through.
I’m learning how to live a life
That doesn’t belong to you.
You thought walking out that door
Would leave me on the floor
But I found the woman I once was,
And I won’t lose her anymore.
