And after all this time,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LYg9TWphJ
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKm8U66DXgL
Where did things go wrong?23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT91q2mYLzY
What did I do?
Or maybe…23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtyiSmKzxt
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYnViY5b8F
if something had changed…23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLC4DPqQx8
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.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHMi4GQDJO
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnRNMoFdz4
needs more than just presence.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1tfqrdehi
It needs words.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEc3MWNq3C
It needs effort.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHrrAhOx87
It needs little things,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcXn7HicvF
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUgVtluMlf
if she had told me instead of telling others,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazRMWgTDSj
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrariFK6odE
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJjcjmrmvq
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHBbzvpWPMY
Sometimes it’s about letting go,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5E2E9U458
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfSPuFmrwh
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHH6OvZwW37
Because it was me who started all of this…23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDLdwtWxIK
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBQLMRE19k
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3XKL1g5lw
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfWDw7Lrpl1
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0z14r4I7x
Every word, every song, every movie,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRytj5x4Rb
everything I ever said to you.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0H154KbDPH
Completely.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUlC6SSJilE
I don’t know how you’ll do it.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VIqWlxCDg
Do it, then leave.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jtcFLkJxZ
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2SHz5rjT41
that was her way of saying:23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBR6ApDCJDt
“Don’t go.”23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbpVhvsoT7X
Maybe it was never about deletion.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvW9ShDFiMu
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbJvG3wZqn
a plea wrapped in anger,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyihymKL4sU
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RPOZmpGsb
Maybe wrong.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQs2miBtJsC
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZsdrhOuFY
hoping I meant something to her.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObTYELb6kk
Everything.
From the songs and movies23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfer5wHuOa
to the words and shared silence,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7oPfytEq9
every little moment,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdkAqsjW1t
every ounce of friendship —23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGN8xmAVgUn
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXYxWkqEZs
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp65y4p1u5e
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyMMqpjsQ2
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ90FgF1oGXI
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1lnBu8DF6
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSjYfJEObh
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXj8BP2b7w
As I always do.23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydaelU09CK
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB03gskJIJa
if everything we shared23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCP8hlS7HRo
was never meant to be —
Then why,23Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uQhl4LR7c
why does it still feel so beautiful?
