And after all this time,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZt4RWLjLro
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6XBVxwJtg
Where did things go wrong?29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBysPaIeFk
What did I do?
Or maybe…29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJftkLYhDwT
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOdHbArJmB
if something had changed…29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLiz4py4cv
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.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ppPlQbucU
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhZ312OD4O
needs more than just presence.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXnNcSbCBy
It needs words.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1qoTBbSG7T
It needs effort.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMs5EZFSgGm
It needs little things,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyGOZuz8xw
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeBBunigqd
if she had told me instead of telling others,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC45yQL7Zs5
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKGyFZvyWp
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QC6rwDt0s
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zTCFFLLDN
Sometimes it’s about letting go,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXK391w3Abj
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqvuZUXzaU
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMahc6lIdY
Because it was me who started all of this…29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6Pv3AuBa3
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr9Zh4zbTBZ
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiwnkMt34A9
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9Y2ZDldQo
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9NOTvr28qM
Every word, every song, every movie,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcWuvsmBpj
everything I ever said to you.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡai2f82pcjv
Completely.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyj58hg8jY
I don’t know how you’ll do it.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvyyr4Lu6NP
Do it, then leave.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXfjN33l5Q
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhExedEics3
that was her way of saying:29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYVyHUslHn2
“Don’t go.”29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIlbYNvevb
Maybe it was never about deletion.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJajdQJVsV
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDBl2exkMgN
a plea wrapped in anger,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFobjBWfcXd
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKboAsk7gt1
Maybe wrong.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9ylYNd4Ot
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7jBQqxl17
hoping I meant something to her.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5yLNJ7jVvs
Everything.
From the songs and movies29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviTq0c4QuU
to the words and shared silence,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB7QHoP0EI
every little moment,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbgEmfiADHM
every ounce of friendship —29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZfF1q4q0D
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47ih2q1JLF
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2Sw0RwXZe
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCpFNFETov
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlg7jOILUu7
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qRowdKiMJ
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWUyc79rtaU
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhMlfVpTwj
As I always do.29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGTwCzobh1
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSSz04pwDQ
if everything we shared29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXJdyBKtmb
was never meant to be —
Then why,29Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwRbPXfiUp
why does it still feel so beautiful?
