Dear x

David Whyte

One of the difficulties of leaving a relationship is not so much, at the end, leaving the person themselves - because, by that time, you're ready to go; what's difficult is leaving the dreams that you shared together. And you know that somehow - no matter who you meet in your life in the future, and no matter what species of happiness you would share with them - you will never, ever share those particular dreams again , with that particular tonality and coloration. And so there's a lovely and powerful form of grief there that is the ultimate of giving away but making space for another form of reimagination.