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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHCjnuB97g
The last page.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ulzIeNqYH
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XXiouxrFo
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDr6XfJzat
Felt the ache between sentences,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GDqrDY7LE
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPadxrrygci
Mine.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVisqpdSEp
Of the love that almost was,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yjed2GH92
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZb95esYhLX
Nor one with villains.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9sT00GqqD
Just two people —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWstmg5kQ0
one who spoke too late,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbAs921tC17
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWvbOz9hIk
How love can bloom from nothing,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnqmGfAlFw
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHbTeBhY96
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zXLc1esHA
I said too much.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUigyNVlZX
Felt too much.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZIxpVktYp
Held on too long.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybZTwMetRR
And when it was time to let go,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7dvOU1O4i
I let go in a way only a fool could —42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZi4kab7jmA
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZsCsRg20h
Is it the promises we keep?42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2Ofh0whTY
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiZvqx3Crr
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7I0G7qTgz
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAWSvoBSZR
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROAerCSQZ4
again and again,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ASCWZzfCz
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKehMavRcPQ
It doesn’t give closure.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRRD0eRrQu
It gives time.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlMXZAcepw
Time to outgrow.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIIQ7UrKpM
Time to forgive.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvNjDQBz8m
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrKnY76saD
Not even with peace.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjljtcfMXw
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCZXLvwtCC
Some aren’t.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAw5ZbNLPw
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAdS6ND40y
the fool will rise again.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡStms5hLCxp
A little wiser.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtDdX85Pzo
A little emptier.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75mcrRRNgT
But still—42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBQ6cOpBR1
hoping.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUnYasSSPt
Still—42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Q9dSxPaFb
loving, in the only way he knows how.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSpf6s755t
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKy20iJcPnh
For seeing me.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡph6ZgizNdo
For listening when I had no voice left.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EyjtlfliU
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFoimkHgyx
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0ULHpgNrf
we find beauty.42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBHbMxLCrU
Even in endings,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNDUjC23Sh
we grow.
And even a fool42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCuwXlzfO5
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHxwkKuBn2
Who Loved,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20oPNEwfLj
Let Go,42Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmQhodOyce
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
