You beautiful thing

It was a privilege to have my heart broken by you, you beautiful thing. You let me believe things I never thought possible. I saw for a moment what it would be like to be loved by a woman like you, and I was forever changed. I cannot go back to my old self. I cannot but be forever grateful. You may have left me for good, but you've left me with such a wonderful, priceless, and perfect gift — the gift of hope. The man I am today is the not the same man I was two years ago. The way you went through me was unprecedented and pure and complete. You rearranged me forever. Some may think this a bad thing, but I do not. Bad things happened, I know, but bad things always happen. Rarely do such good things happen, and almost never to me. I know we're done. I know we're over. But you still linger like a nuclear bomb. You will half-life away long after I'm dead. When I believed you could be mine, it changed something fundamental in me. When you left me, I rearranged again....