And after all this time,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3I2TRsp3ju
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLusjGimK86
Where did things go wrong?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUPackNCmb
What did I do?
Or maybe…42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6l9ncdiOfu
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡof233Of12y
if something had changed…42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbehCtbK26s
why didn’t she just talk to me?
Why did the silence grow louder than the words we used to share?
People aren’t mind readers.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4D3JXPEy4s
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2T3dM08swu
needs more than just presence.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZXW55QuaEk
It needs words.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmt4MXxjyep
It needs effort.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAle1vZvxr
It needs little things,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwz8opuWEPz
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eUDwDlb11
if she had told me instead of telling others,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua4H5pWQC3
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57XlZ8SBZK
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABQWiBrtCa
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqcPSTGEX3L
Sometimes it’s about letting go,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXvkZAnlyH
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0TEKamKWY
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Bkk4uBdU0
Because it was me who started all of this…42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuNNdPbqtN
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkz8U3JxFoO
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyzAZdhZ2r
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKEX2wax1D
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUqWrmW3nGz
Every word, every song, every movie,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9h2SMawu2J
everything I ever said to you.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeutHlUXmy
Completely.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBirJSRAMPh
I don’t know how you’ll do it.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TiKLFgttQ
Do it, then leave.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWSMVUgfmX
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaDdhb8uqi
that was her way of saying:42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEkob5tFwON
“Don’t go.”42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPScyECiVl
Maybe it was never about deletion.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uXOQHpAZf
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoStq0PJyu
a plea wrapped in anger,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CeHxTloKg
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT91iEedkMO
Maybe wrong.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjsQUzDSBBs
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBg8r5Bn8yS
hoping I meant something to her.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9AE1EgLIh
Everything.
From the songs and movies42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEVYOa1DVl
to the words and shared silence,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Zn4dC3kpY
every little moment,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nLGl7B6eR
every ounce of friendship —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuRB3pwogl
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡea1QN02K0Z
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvKL6Kixup
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLagzGxX5KL
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcTxjVhbeb
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyN8BUgXihP
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxtg90snlJ
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAOB5Pk5Hw
As I always do.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyb0uCpOQj
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2j2Go6gsb
if everything we shared42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IfSzos4af
was never meant to be —
Then why,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJdXT9mrso
why does it still feel so beautiful?
