I gave her all that I had,
not dressed in gold or silver,
but in trembling hands
that loved her beyond pride,
beyond reason,
beyond my own breaking.
Her name rested quietly in my chest
the way the earth carries rain,
with reverence,
never questioning the flood.
Her burdens became my pilgrimage.
I stood at the door of her demons,
softly pleading with them,
trying to tame the chaos
so she might finally rest.
I tried to pull her from the poisons that chased her,
from the addictions that devoured her light.
I wanted her to remember her worth
in the moments she forgot.
Yes;
I put pressure on her.
But pressure is what births diamonds,
what forges mountains from stone.
And she was something
far greater than diamonds,
far brighter than the moon and sun.
But she never understood the weight of my love.
For her, I was never enough.
Nor could I ever be.
Time after time,
I watched her drift to others,
moving on so quickly,
as if love was something disposable,
as if loyalty was something
to be pawned off for comfort
in moments of loneliness.
And so,
the chapter finally closed.
For her sake.
For mine.
To end the cycle.
To silence the ache.
To let her see life without me...
to stand in the arms of others,
perhaps to learn what love feels like
when it does not burn,
when it does not stay.
I will miss her forever.
The dimples that betrayed her smiles,
the roar of her laughter,
the soft chaos of her presence
that made even ordinary moments feel sacred.
But this was the path she chose.
And I,
I was never her choice.
So I gathered my love like wilted flowers,
pressed them between pages
that will never be opened again.
I listened to her choices,
I walked away,
not because I wanted to,
but because staying
meant drowning in a place
where I was never enough,
no matter how hard I tried.
-Cyrus K







