redefining a self

sometimes it hurts excruciatingly
when you lose yourself completely in another
and when they need to move away
you just can't see the pieces anymore
to put yourself together once again

with stark emptiness you try to tell yourself apart
from that belief.. that oneness
feeling a deep void where you should have been

redefining a self that had somewhere
ceased to exist as apart....

whether parent friend or spouse
you fill up someone's need
put in all of you and more
but the real strengthening
is when you can move away
and smile for that
new-found confidence..