And after all this time,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkLlWec532
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAow0hxIK2
Where did things go wrong?32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRMvNmShTdX
What did I do?
Or maybe…32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBALv98DNP9
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrL3uZc3xv
if something had changed…32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQlPcRktwLq
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.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ghm5rQ6gt
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxx8N6nipm
needs more than just presence.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp15VkCLLA2
It needs words.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMKTLJxxQf
It needs effort.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXquOFZWmB
It needs little things,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bi0sxuOEx
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtN5ZesxOf
if she had told me instead of telling others,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIJNgDDl44x
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKepfJNABnc
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡam7V2Pb72Q
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQtjcALwh0I
Sometimes it’s about letting go,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1RDGmn1d15
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Nx2m9rHJv
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSfzcLl6Ew
Because it was me who started all of this…32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvKO3D6jRy
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmivr3JnNk
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrCcEmpyX7
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡun5jykEP7H
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJvmChoY8b
Every word, every song, every movie,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCZYrJvOYQ
everything I ever said to you.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkiFhynU9S
Completely.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiBxPgPEWu3
I don’t know how you’ll do it.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgiSYsyCLK
Do it, then leave.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUINNX49Cwx
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdYu4bojCs
that was her way of saying:32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSpK4ON33x
“Don’t go.”32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ10DnT2Vho
Maybe it was never about deletion.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtycLDqmTz
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNfoh03w9R
a plea wrapped in anger,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95TJsiCygr
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnp6dGzU7q
Maybe wrong.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3oq9630kN7
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvKYtQK5uR
hoping I meant something to her.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVoFrprquh
Everything.
From the songs and movies32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyljICxdWkC
to the words and shared silence,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOovo9HEz6S
every little moment,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTznx6b4wN
every ounce of friendship —32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIOkzHLPiT
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYs2KwhBNa
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNqnRUdrn4C
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWMXtC2jEj
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT7kyjqNjPp
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDipmACfrXV
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ZQpSK0AAJ
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB89nr7fHzi
As I always do.32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4Ppwm6yVW
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPpwkewuLR
if everything we shared32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9azg43IvA
was never meant to be —
Then why,32Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLX7YTCCjUY
why does it still feel so beautiful?
