And after all this time,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWXZM0oTPj
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1h4Q3AD4h4
Where did things go wrong?11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGnVM2a065
What did I do?
Or maybe…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡap4IxNobV7
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgB09Z7R1S
if something had changed…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCm7P4ZdyX
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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhFflv0afn
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGueaSBLeqx
needs more than just presence.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhqyA44VX0
It needs words.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExDUsS4FWd
It needs effort.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nddqP7J62
It needs little things,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGASzcU22c
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKip7TFkdkX
if she had told me instead of telling others,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhkCPX6dM3
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2j1gsHu4R
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqIVw6QumY
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrFbTAIFY7
Sometimes it’s about letting go,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHhCCxSr5h
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGd5XnaXFLT
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCCq9DJZWa
Because it was me who started all of this…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2jNuLzL7C
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj0JwSLbKRV
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkW6REGZ8F
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4uT6VKm7x
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9i3ipKqPMG
Every word, every song, every movie,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyFrLPfbyq
everything I ever said to you.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ93ii05ye0i
Completely.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXHz3Vw0s7
I don’t know how you’ll do it.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqjORySwVw
Do it, then leave.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s3xwuX6Bm
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfBTKoUVSoH
that was her way of saying:11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4LCvYH30E
“Don’t go.”11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKoT5bN7BHN
Maybe it was never about deletion.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10y4ly34UL
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcVBVHxJ6f
a plea wrapped in anger,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBoIRs2GQW
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjAkG4GdkT
Maybe wrong.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQONCxX2UI
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmWj8JbXqV
hoping I meant something to her.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4Eq2QqvKz
Everything.
From the songs and movies11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡda7NYb4Vyu
to the words and shared silence,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡta98juD2RP
every little moment,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPN8r0Vzw6
every ounce of friendship —11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjebOu3hNe
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYeNpXt4Qd
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO19LnF56iB
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrZccb0wh7
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9yoHWkYYL
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlz2DQ4XPsM
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmXjVIhfm7
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0uOJKW7wD
As I always do.11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFs7ZQ4g4h
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cE8btAkwB
if everything we shared11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ72U24zhRGG
was never meant to be —
Then why,11Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ytbPsyLcC
why does it still feel so beautiful?
