Thank you for giving up on me, thank you for believing that I’ll never be good enough and for making me feel like I’ll never be someone you value or esteem. !
If it wasn’t for your continuous disapproval and rejection, I ‘dn’t have located my own voice and I ‘dn’t have located the guts as well as the strength to resist your voices and follow my own.
Thank you for giving up on me so readily, you instructed me how to fight for myself. !
Thank you for not waiting for me or giving me a chance. Thank you for being impatient and believing that this is all there’s to me. Thank you for pushing me away and leading me to a better location, directing me to discover better individuals who believed in me and accepted me and thank you for giving me a reason to walk away from you forever — a reason never to look back.
Thank you for not missing me when I was gone, thank you for not attempting to win me back, thank you for showing me how l meant nothing to you. You got me understand that you were full of lies, you were imitation, nothing about you was real and we never actually had anything in common. !
Thank you for your lies since they showed me the truth and thank you for your departure because it pushed me to locate new starts, to discover new roads and to let go of the past that you were once part of. !
Thank you for making me feel like I’m tough to adore, thank you for picking others over me, thank you for making me feel unworthy because you instructed me to see my value, you instructed me to pick myself and you instructed me that however tough I can be, I still deserve to be adored. I deserve to be adopted with all my defects, but more than anything, thank you for showing me that I don’t deserve you.
Thank you for giving up on me when I wanted you to be there. Thank you for letting me down when I believed you’d lift me up and thank you for shutting the door once I came rapping on it.
You instructed me the best way to live, you instructed me the best way to depend on myself and the way to locate my well-being away from you. You made me understand that I don’t must be defined by how you saw me or how you handled me. You got me understand that I can redefine myself and my life. !
Thank you for getting out of my entire life, I understand now that losing you was the only method to locate myself and I understand that I wanted you to give up on me so I can never again settle for a person who’d readily let me go.
Thank you for giving up on me when I didn’t adore myself, rather than ruining me, I built myself upward, instead of making me cry, you got me grin.
I’m grinning because what you believed was a disaster turned out to be my happy ending, and what exactly you believed was an end turned out to be my start. 
Rania Naim is a poet and writer of the brand new novel All The Words I Should Have Said, accessible here.
