And after all this time,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLBYp5Tbhd
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsrLFDIZNC
Where did things go wrong?10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWy8eFTNPbR
What did I do?
Or maybe…10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrfHjAcv56
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6TenC4onl
if something had changed…10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEqAj0msBpm
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.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG1bfWiiKPD
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMzGXqNKMg
needs more than just presence.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdEOuZsnhyS
It needs words.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPHnm5Q3pH
It needs effort.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyJe3kZBU7
It needs little things,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtd4u9nqjS
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQzfzs3j1D
if she had told me instead of telling others,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PygrnQdxx
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4y3pXYtLI
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauWuk1gr3W
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtSIdbM2NM
Sometimes it’s about letting go,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SIjHSpXI3
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzF88nrZIC
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSxxHM9CCP
Because it was me who started all of this…10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCv1ezpZYD9
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUauBL0KkZg
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncVWHCf0XV
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PKBXyENtq
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEQDB0TJnF
Every word, every song, every movie,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzfoUtfoTF9
everything I ever said to you.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBJofLlu5x
Completely.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgxCzFTsh0
I don’t know how you’ll do it.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHTfmNwrhy
Do it, then leave.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5912O7z080
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAqbm8PRtp
that was her way of saying:10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWC6aWO5Tiw
“Don’t go.”10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgw4MxhB1cu
Maybe it was never about deletion.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7nkfYPcnzy
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcGZT88E5c
a plea wrapped in anger,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6nNszDSGS
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkEGvPsFxJ
Maybe wrong.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfkW0X99hWq
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyjJgo4Qz9
hoping I meant something to her.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUeIkofuLt
Everything.
From the songs and movies10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqinDylfq9
to the words and shared silence,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoULjepqiPk
every little moment,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelgCsLEpnY
every ounce of friendship —10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTa9Zo2FQr
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYx4KNtsaM
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUK0fDg7ZX
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHf3jtpMIh6
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUhzYL6j4B
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazNmvHr0WY
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX26wr6k5Fx
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxlkhQ0EA9
As I always do.10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhanBbCOdd
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBKuqKalPV
if everything we shared10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2p7t9ssmtR
was never meant to be —
Then why,10Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtirrldcMSA
why does it still feel so beautiful?
