Maybe it was jealousy.125Please respect copyright.PENANA6bLqrK43gC
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —125Please respect copyright.PENANAAtBpmOAa9D
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:125Please respect copyright.PENANADdE1yq1JqV
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.125Please respect copyright.PENANAuJWll8QMAE
It wasn’t that.125Please respect copyright.PENANADemrcEfUI7
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.125Please respect copyright.PENANAirqfsM6erU
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.125Please respect copyright.PENANAXDUPkEujII
Terrified, actually.125Please respect copyright.PENANAyCo3XK4gjc
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —125Please respect copyright.PENANAey30EpQF0Q
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —125Please respect copyright.PENANApXo6w4TSve
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.125Please respect copyright.PENANAUTW8uixGwA
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.125Please respect copyright.PENANAXbJAj0OGU9
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —125Please respect copyright.PENANAEqFFR1RBmQ
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.125Please respect copyright.PENANAFDJF9iiPRh
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.125Please respect copyright.PENANA1U22LAepRt
Because love is blind,125Please respect copyright.PENANA0LzRuebdU7
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.125Please respect copyright.PENANAPd1GPVdROK
Not love.125Please respect copyright.PENANAZeN2HKRIcH
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.125Please respect copyright.PENANA2Az0Sq9N3U
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.125Please respect copyright.PENANAeEjdBOydyS
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?125Please respect copyright.PENANA45MIiCJWZZ
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —125Please respect copyright.PENANAAwhu3fICuK
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,125Please respect copyright.PENANAKWhTTp5Ffd
not gripped tight.
You see,125Please respect copyright.PENANAXiewkUeiJn
I wasn’t jealous.125Please respect copyright.PENANAkYMR0E9ZDK
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.125Please respect copyright.PENANA4V6tvcyGh0
The us we created in tiny moments —125Please respect copyright.PENANAHa3ZXe3noY
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,125Please respect copyright.PENANAA0imFZmdSh
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAqJL5A2QjTj
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —125Please respect copyright.PENANADgOWTdmrRC
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.125Please respect copyright.PENANA0PWTyjqPCH
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.125Please respect copyright.PENANAnadkS1DQPU
Me. And you.125Please respect copyright.PENANAVjnWCUS16b
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.125Please respect copyright.PENANATtR3eXav4f
Letting go, not because someone better came along…125Please respect copyright.PENANAxgb7NoFQaq
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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