Maybe it was jealousy.121Please respect copyright.PENANAEuwMrj0izN
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —121Please respect copyright.PENANAxtH6SsoKSl
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:121Please respect copyright.PENANAWBlLtTq5Zh
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.121Please respect copyright.PENANAihdymCv6aD
It wasn’t that.121Please respect copyright.PENANANflsiGXGkP
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.121Please respect copyright.PENANAdqEZv4eugb
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.121Please respect copyright.PENANA4xzj2wfcJz
Terrified, actually.121Please respect copyright.PENANA11Db4aSvT9
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —121Please respect copyright.PENANAvFEOPe0GPg
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —121Please respect copyright.PENANAO31zd7HyDU
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.121Please respect copyright.PENANAh24c4sLTCd
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.121Please respect copyright.PENANA97GdHtxmDs
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —121Please respect copyright.PENANAZrtgRMQXTg
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.121Please respect copyright.PENANAj2guZpT37c
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.121Please respect copyright.PENANAyjCf3r7F3l
Because love is blind,121Please respect copyright.PENANAf7uieDyltP
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.121Please respect copyright.PENANA1VCDPwNcwV
Not love.121Please respect copyright.PENANAlHfR7sbzJf
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.121Please respect copyright.PENANA9it62hb8Tn
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.121Please respect copyright.PENANAjVJikGBjQj
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?121Please respect copyright.PENANAeyKZE29wgh
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —121Please respect copyright.PENANA7ItEAnCduV
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,121Please respect copyright.PENANALHU9sAcPwU
not gripped tight.
You see,121Please respect copyright.PENANAy3MSTzCdhX
I wasn’t jealous.121Please respect copyright.PENANAKrDrebGZ0f
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.121Please respect copyright.PENANAVh8xMWPlwt
The us we created in tiny moments —121Please respect copyright.PENANAKbHbI6EMDq
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,121Please respect copyright.PENANAgpQHxgBWII
holding on to silences like they were the most honest things we ever said.
I was scared of losing that version of you I named Forevermore.121Please respect copyright.PENANAXQD2XMvqvP
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —121Please respect copyright.PENANA8Op6C2uYJu
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.121Please respect copyright.PENANAJOcQbyyU0h
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.121Please respect copyright.PENANAexE00jni3C
Me. And you.121Please respect copyright.PENANAccw2hlhDuH
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.121Please respect copyright.PENANA2cPFtU1ajT
Letting go, not because someone better came along…121Please respect copyright.PENANAUAlVmy737L
but because we forgot how to see each other like we used to.
And that’s what broke my heart the most.
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