Accidental Goodbye
It wasn’t a goodbye that’s the cruel part Just a miscounted night a body trusting the wrong silence
Morning found them unfinished coffee cooling phone still lit with a joke no one would laugh at now
She meant to sleep meant to wake meant to fix things later the way people always do but intent doesn’t matter to gravity
The room kept its shape The world kept its schedule Only her breath missed the memo
They call it accidental to soften the edges as if the world could rewind what chemistry decided without asking
Loved ones search the past for warnings shaped like answers replaying normal moments until they bruise
Some deaths don’t arrive screaming They slip in quietly wearing the face of routine leaving devastation to do the shouting afterward
And somewhere between blame and grief there’s a hollow truth sometimes it isn’t despair that kills you just one ordinary mistake that never got a chance to apologize
