Luxarian

I saw a car accident today and it made me think of you

not the way metal folds not the scream of brakes or the glass scattering like tiny constellations across the asphalt

but the silence after

the way everything just stops

how people stand around unsure where to look or what to say like grief is something you're supposed to direct traffic around

I remember how you left no impact I could point to no moment I could replay and say there that's where it all went wrong

just a quiet collision of things unsaid and things I said too late

and suddenly I was standing in the wreckage holding pieces that didn't fit anymore

I saw a car accident today and it made me think of you

because some things don't explode they just break in ways you don't hear until long after everything's already stopped moving