PART 1: Before You Came
I was fine before you came.
Not happy. Not glowing. But fine.
I had quiet routines and untold dreams. I didn't expect anything. Not even love.
And then you…
With your tired eyes, your Sunday smile, your habit of saying my name like it was a song.
You didn’t just arrive.
You became a place.
A place I didn’t know I was homesick for.
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PART 2: All the Little Things
You remembered the exact way I liked my tea.
You listened to the stories I hadn’t told out loud.
You made the world feel a little less heavy just by standing next to me.
And somewhere between shared silences and soft confessions,
I began to believe that maybe, just maybe…
This time, it would last.
But love is cruelest when it teaches you hope.
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PART 3: The Shift
You started replying slower.
Stopped calling me "mine."
Your eyes became distant, even when your body stayed close.
I asked what was wrong. You said, “Nothing.”
But silence was already louder than your voice.
I told myself I was imagining it.
That love doesn’t just vanish.
That people don’t just… forget how to stay.
But they do.
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PART 4: The Goodbye That Didn’t Happen
You never said goodbye.
No final kiss. No closure. Just... distance.
One day you were everywhere.
The next, you were a ghost that only lived in my memories.
I kept waiting for a message. A call. A reason.
None came.
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PART 5: What I Never Told You
I never told you that you were the first person I trusted after years of building walls.
That I had started naming futures with you in them.
That I loved you — not in the fireworks kind of way — but in the steady, sacred way.
I never told you.
Because I thought I had more time.
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PART 6: The Letter I Never Sent
Sometimes I write letters to you.
Letters I’ll never send.
Letters that say:
“I don’t hate you.
I miss you.
And sometimes… I still look for your shadow in places we never went.”
But most of all, I write this:
“You could’ve stayed.
You didn’t have to love me back.
You just had to be honest.”
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You didn’t break my heart by leaving.
You broke it by making me believe you’d never go.
