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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHwezXFeTZ
The last page.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83zL833om7
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvouD6Gr9fw
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhi7G8GKSr1
Felt the ache between sentences,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskM6TuKsZq
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5iKEGeQCpc
Mine.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsP4mtMO1bd
Of the love that almost was,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcSk9GDHcv
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlBLVxvnJoN
Nor one with villains.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTRJFToDqt
Just two people —12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHbx6ncm9I
one who spoke too late,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMGiJoy7Rd
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxMRUKYdIl
How love can bloom from nothing,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wNYxr2lcX
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFC1qI6N8j
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCDnldoFK0
I said too much.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRx4plJiCW6
Felt too much.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9C7KhXpsbG
Held on too long.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTO5KELB2i
And when it was time to let go,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKNK4YNMP8
I let go in a way only a fool could —12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gWCU11RqC
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxXissoHud
Is it the promises we keep?12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1LAFP0e94
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaea217CtBH
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9pKcwJ8BN
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDWeRxtQQf
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFI0G7uMpCv
again and again,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLq1mWWC8LI
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJOrpJJomn
It doesn’t give closure.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRWUyvGKRe
It gives time.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1iN1pKF4D
Time to outgrow.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyfmbsE29S
Time to forgive.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn12zOPaBi
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dyRSSI0Ir
Not even with peace.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7Vi1p0qqE
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zlpuxpZY0
Some aren’t.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhVb7gYsEpN
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtyxvUQDVD
the fool will rise again.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBpIOv33lD
A little wiser.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5SD4QFMtj
A little emptier.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NJfFoczLT
But still—12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgW2jsUYHra
hoping.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmGEbpy3h3
Still—12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uvqFganaP
loving, in the only way he knows how.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLmzOTgiU0
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFkmlDLrgk
For seeing me.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygIlxxxwMx
For listening when I had no voice left.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jPqoUHMK4
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgokBgsO313
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgAhgRXx3gO
we find beauty.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzetyJuuyq
Even in endings,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqbJj4bgxr
we grow.
And even a fool12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxnT0VVEp6
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBS9RqjqUW
Who Loved,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUWgmrolcU
Let Go,12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIHxuxPcty
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
