And after all this time,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmP13sUrgW
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlQVBGZOKo
Where did things go wrong?57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLKqnTIIGC
What did I do?
Or maybe…57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRNVyY3Aoo
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmqQfqUdf8
if something had changed…57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwIALrcWAZ
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.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcwarCgopKM
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DdFfHZLIz
needs more than just presence.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVyCPmQ1m0
It needs words.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKkXe8JgbM
It needs effort.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNZ0rdHVW6
It needs little things,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpB9ZYDhf7
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcd7tkuhYoA
if she had told me instead of telling others,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOKep4tHIH
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2j45wBNGgq
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCFpOEeMBQ8
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3fE1jsbAb
Sometimes it’s about letting go,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuz5H8OXFNP
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEblj4tBoF
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYJvT0fYrm
Because it was me who started all of this…57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCcA7hZ5GA
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2bePjXKMBS
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9zEsuHZox
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqhqhvAGjZ
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnw0NLvOpO4
Every word, every song, every movie,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQxt53SqUR
everything I ever said to you.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9l8gQqt6N
Completely.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GNfYVLAVz
I don’t know how you’ll do it.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtX4Bkefe9B
Do it, then leave.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg2NTJWWKb
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPrPc2Wb83
that was her way of saying:57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqK3XPDFpHM
“Don’t go.”57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuE5wAtM99I
Maybe it was never about deletion.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCLIJ5qaJm
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2oHfUfhYX
a plea wrapped in anger,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNYi6CvXls
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkzxGLd1sG
Maybe wrong.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOu3uFeyYc
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TctEPXd4E
hoping I meant something to her.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRg3zCEF21
Everything.
From the songs and movies57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMIPMl8Ng0
to the words and shared silence,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qVFjQZuw7
every little moment,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9e9cAk2Q18
every ounce of friendship —57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94o3niBM0c
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfsPggoDRn
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjYGO326M9
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnVZsFfwYtA
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡggUl76r8Og
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35SVFsyvZn
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsY2wSIre9
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95uBB82yhP
As I always do.57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSz8hfdeFT
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNv16JBse8
if everything we shared57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡug8jo3oMbD
was never meant to be —
Then why,57Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYe3uj4Re0Y
why does it still feel so beautiful?
