NaPoWriMo - Day 2

 Today's challenge: write a poem about your own road not taken...

Leavings

I didn't have to leave you
    and honestly
it would have been easier to stay
but how would that look...
    biting our tongues
    avoiding eye contact
   stepping on egg shells
    and distancing
            before it was a thing
That road
would have led to
    further disappointment
    hardened hearts
    and resentment
I didn't want to become good
at any of those...
We look back now
    as cautious friends
    both in agreement
glad that road
        washed out when it did...

-Lisa