#chapter closed

I can’t keep letting you consume me

you’re gone,

so I should let you go.

Yet here I am,

sifting through the echoes of you,

replaying memories

like they still belong to me.

I’ve had my faults,

and so have you

two imperfect souls

trying to hold something

that was never meant to stay.

Maybe everything happens for a reason,

maybe love sometimes visits

just to be felt,

not kept.

And still…

I’m grateful.

For the memories,

for the kind of love

I always dreamed of

even if it was only borrowed,

even if it was never mine to keep.

I carry it with me now

as something soft,

something fleeting,

something real.

So this is me,

closing the chapter

with trembling hands

Thank you.

And… goodbye.

no matter how many roads I built to her,

she would always take another.

I was the candle burning to ash,

she was the room that never looked for light.

Others were her sunrise,

I was the shadow that lingered

after they were gone.

I gave until my hands were empty,

until my voice was raw with prayers

she could not hear.

Now I choose the kingdom of my own peace.

A throne where only those who choose me

may enter.

Let her chase the winds that scatter her,

let her dance with the fires that scorch her.

I will walk forward

with the ones who keep their hands open

when I arrive.

And still,

I leave with my heart full,

carrying a love for her

that no rejection could starve,

a love she will never name,

never return,

yet it burns within me

as the rarest and truest thing I have ever known.

I send it ahead of her like a blessing,

praying it wraps itself around her life

so she might rise into all she could be.

For in my eyes,

she has always been worthy

of nothing less

than the very best this world can give.

In the silence behind me,

she will never comprehend

how much I gave,

how much I tried,

how much of myself

I burned for her.

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