#imiss

To the miserable Echo,

Some people leave, and the moon  just keeps orbiting like nothing happened. But mine didn’t. It stayed still the moment you walked away. And what's worse you never came back. Not even once. Not even to see if I was still standing in the ruins of what we used to be. You were the moon to me Distant, glowing, unreachable, But even the moon never leaves the sky You did. I wonder, do you ever look up at the same stars and think of the light we once shared? Or are we like two distant planets now, separate, untouchable, each with our own orbits, never to cross again?

I can’t stop chasing echoes of you. I’m lost in a galaxy of memories the way you held me, the way we laughed, the words we whispered in the dark, like constellations carved into my soul. But even the brightest stars burn out, and I guess that’s what happened to us. And yet, I still find myself searching, looking up at the night sky, hoping that the stars will somehow realign and bring us back to the same place we were. But deep down, I know that’s just a fantasy a dream of what could have been. You’re gone, and I’m left with only the remnants of what we once were, pieces of a galaxy I can never fully reach.

But even in this, even in the emptiness of it all, I can’t hate you. I can’t blame you. I know you had no choice, just as the stars have no choice but to burn and fade away. You had to go, just as I had to learn to let go.

IMISS Vol.709 Rui Yu (瑞妤) 2022, 4kUp.net