how letting go feels

You put the pictures in a box. You wash the clothes that still smell like him. You start sleeping in the middle of the bed and turning your phone on silent. You make plans with friends. Conversations with someone new fill your free time. You go on dates. You learn life without your best friend. You drive down empty gravel roads and sing your favorite country songs. You drink wine and ugly cry. You stop picking up things at the store that make you think of him. You no longer refer to yourself as a "we". It's just you. Again. And it's okay. Time moves forward and so do you. Then...Just like that, it was like he was never there.