And after all this time,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEAoVi5XVy
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyE9OMRs5kQ
Where did things go wrong?11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlehGMuTjc
What did I do?
Or maybe…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtAokZeQ7a
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQAg9Q4Hrk
if something had changed…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmPEN1yAvS
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.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10WbbDbQuy
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcCNhT3uIn
needs more than just presence.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNg8yZKCyy
It needs words.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡABfwfFFSOP
It needs effort.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyZmeV6eYm
It needs little things,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVpROXHDIL
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxe6ts9IS0
if she had told me instead of telling others,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1DYrKotKT
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPlCM2PFUA
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8WAUlaQUWQ
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtp5vqPOyS
Sometimes it’s about letting go,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRIYSPT0Wb
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3x4bIrAQA
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGWb6sqgeI
Because it was me who started all of this…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMEe3HWSmC
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2g76kveBh
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCk1WT2T5x
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6MQ6ZRzM3
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9GjByNeGX
Every word, every song, every movie,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxSqJLcT6b
everything I ever said to you.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWWce1cDTG
Completely.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgGRqFbRSP
I don’t know how you’ll do it.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3p60sQuUAc
Do it, then leave.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6M9BztHlVM
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkQsXjITfz
that was her way of saying:11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AuHn12ZxN
“Don’t go.”11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSHZrCP0fX
Maybe it was never about deletion.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzy928iVOp
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9reVfpvaMN
a plea wrapped in anger,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbp5LUa0I9
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU2nE8V6NkD
Maybe wrong.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQq8XxupScG
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilV4k4odhe
hoping I meant something to her.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKO33e9R0o
Everything.
From the songs and movies11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpHH2cPnP4
to the words and shared silence,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2eoVYLAww
every little moment,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpakKOb2d5
every ounce of friendship —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR28IHU51wT
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzk8VJOdlzu
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNMFv1TEa4
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgb5rlHPFA6
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUFokcfhKy
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNonhs17g7
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Dv2tmmZet
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfNgdNrzCgw
As I always do.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5S02Fe8I4
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgjKujKxNr
if everything we shared11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzrgShIu1j
was never meant to be —
Then why,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteSOk0Sgas
why does it still feel so beautiful?
