The Cost of Letting Go

Waiting for something you don't believe will ever come is its own kind of ache.
Time drags, each day another weight on your chest,
the promise of something better just beyond reach.
You wonder if you're wasting time,
if your heart is beating for nothing.
But letting go of something you swore would one day be everything--
that's worse.
It's tearing out a piece of yourself,
shattering dreams with your own hands
simply because hope ran dry.
How do you walk away from something that never left you?
How do you turn your back on a future
that still breathes inside you,
even if it was only ever a dream?