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To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCs42H02RD
The last page.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJKHJ59Jl5
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyvSe9GVce
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeIDrRRaVH
Felt the ache between sentences,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuBHNSDPxd6
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxjY52PCIj
Mine.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvPUAFawGC
Of the love that almost was,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrhq4k3jcBh
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATqhcABXmC
Nor one with villains.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNLFU1hOQd
Just two people —33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7O6cfHRzC
one who spoke too late,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdRVYR0Okk
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJklF2lTqhN
How love can bloom from nothing,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyA9cjw5AV1
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7jCX1iKHs
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYuqiR9ebf
I said too much.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81z1avHtq9
Felt too much.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCnh8pJIpM
Held on too long.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDro6wRosqT
And when it was time to let go,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuw98t9TPxD
I let go in a way only a fool could —33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Szrg6OZVo
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTsVtwWEY5
Is it the promises we keep?33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZfLy5xA0m
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PQYkcU4c6
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SdzuM7qQj
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu1myxtcxR
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡId9sthQW1c
again and again,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUU8HOqWB6
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq30UFyajHb
It doesn’t give closure.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0T6c5Jcth
It gives time.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSUSJSsXnS
Time to outgrow.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcLpiPuaOY
Time to forgive.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNKqjwWLo2
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosJKoLlvkU
Not even with peace.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMGGjKr1OG
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqlNjukuoH
Some aren’t.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTayaaKP2h
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPWHb1fQDx
the fool will rise again.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGIZHEKkuZ
A little wiser.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02U2PuKx5u
A little emptier.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPzmbLAeix
But still—33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESU4WyZnRN
hoping.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9JXEEGBvz7
Still—33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3zxlP1uuQ3
loving, in the only way he knows how.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXA3NlY34f
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FOBs11AbB
For seeing me.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfhcqFHUya
For listening when I had no voice left.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbu56574Au
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOB5ObOEEko
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDfWu9MJeG
we find beauty.33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKnaf1u7Tz
Even in endings,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDgmCLAvkz
we grow.
And even a fool33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OajK8m0vd
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRyQel8MGR
Who Loved,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPiM69srecV
Let Go,33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMeyFN6SB0
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
