Moving On
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Blues
Moving On was released on December 12, 2025 by Kairo as a part of the album If I Could Go Back
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I woke up today and your name didn't hit me before my feet touched the floor.
I didn't check my phone for a message that wasn't coming,
Didn't rehearse the apology I never got to say.
I made coffee in that chipped mug you hated,
Sat by the window, let the morning light cover
The last place you stood when you said you couldn't stay.
For once, the silence didn't feel like punishment.
It felt like space—
Space I've been avoiding because I was scared
Of what healing might ask me.
But today, for the first time in longer than I admit,
The ache didn't feel like it owned me.
This is the day I finally let you go—
Not out of anger, not out of spite,
But because holding on started costing me
Pieces of myself I needed to keep.
I'll always love the part of my life that had your name in it.
But I'm done trying to build a future out of memories.
This is the day I give myself back.
I walked past the park where we used to sit on Sundays.
I didn't avoid it this time.
I sat on the same bench, traced the initials carved by strangers,
Felt the wind move across my hands,
And realized not every place you touched has to hurt.
I watched a little girl chase a bird across the path,
Her father laughing behind her.
And I thought, life keeps going even when we don't feel ready.
Maybe that's okay.
Maybe that's the point.
I used to think letting go meant losing everything.
Now I see it's opening your hand after holding on too tight for too long.
This is the day I finally let you go—
Not because you weren't worth loving,
But because I was worth saving, too.
I can carry what we had without dragging the past.
But me? I can remember you without breaking.
Every time I do today,
I step out of the story I kept rewriting in my head
And start living the one that's mine.
I'll never pretend you didn't matter.
You did.
You changed me.
You taught me.
You cracked me open in ways that hurt and healed at the same time.
But some chapters are meant to end, not stretch into forever.
Some love is meant to be learned from, not lived in.
And I'm done living in yesterday.
So here it is—
The quiet truth I finally earned:
Moving on isn't forgetting.
It's accepting.
It's breathing again.
It's choosing a future that doesn't rely on your shadow
To make sense of the light.
This is the day I finally let you go.
And this time,
I'm letting myself go too.
