And after all this time,12Please respect copyright.PENANA74cu6mnCRe
I still can’t stop myself from thinking:12Please respect copyright.PENANAG8kE26vNbA
Where did things go wrong?12Please respect copyright.PENANAJaf7xIoq5w
What did I do?
Or maybe…12Please respect copyright.PENANAKCO5CVKj1e
Was it ever even about me?
Because if she truly felt uncomfortable,12Please respect copyright.PENANAaO9ryYtQKM
if something had changed…12Please respect copyright.PENANAVsiOFQo6Li
why didn’t she just talk to me?
Why did the silence grow louder than the words we used to share?
People aren’t mind readers.12Please respect copyright.PENANAGQdo29cgCy
Love, friendship — anything worth holding onto —12Please respect copyright.PENANAUuuXI2uqdu
needs more than just presence.12Please respect copyright.PENANA5FbuFHDUrx
It needs words.12Please respect copyright.PENANAiLsW00YYld
It needs effort.12Please respect copyright.PENANACLyOKAhX9E
It needs little things,12Please respect copyright.PENANARpMVIE7jRU
done with heart.
And maybe, just maybe…12Please respect copyright.PENANAFi1VBPxznh
if she had told me instead of telling others,12Please respect copyright.PENANAsFDReJaRGE
we could’ve found our way back.
But if becoming strangers is what she needs to find peace —12Please respect copyright.PENANAlMi7SYi9HU
if silence is what soothes her better than my presence —12Please respect copyright.PENANADGxkwwgqqi
then I’ll step back.
Because loving someone isn’t always about staying.12Please respect copyright.PENANAhuMdLUPll1
Sometimes it’s about letting go,12Please respect copyright.PENANAKtMCMa1PDK
even when you're breaking in half.
I only ever wanted her to be okay.12Please respect copyright.PENANAqpQlvo8cCX
Even if it meant losing the piece of myself I found in her.
So I tried to say goodbye.12Please respect copyright.PENANArVK2EwvEUT
Because it was me who started all of this…12Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6DDPCsgK7
so it should be me who ends it.
I sent her a message.12Please respect copyright.PENANA9YdzPwMPNS
A quiet farewell wrapped in trembling fingers.
“This is the end,” I said.12Please respect copyright.PENANACUfZqkSB1E
“Let’s stop pretending…”
But I was drowning in thoughts,12Please respect copyright.PENANAzoWZynf2uv
while she…
She replied:
"Leave… but delete everything.12Please respect copyright.PENANAmWtXoSMzaj
Every word, every song, every movie,12Please respect copyright.PENANAuYaZnmdpOI
everything I ever said to you.12Please respect copyright.PENANAZX9T0BtSq3
Completely.12Please respect copyright.PENANAE9NVWCy0Lo
I don’t know how you’ll do it.12Please respect copyright.PENANA8v1wmuh65J
Do it, then leave.12Please respect copyright.PENANAgqpwCfL0Mq
Or you can’t leave."
And I stood there, shattered.
Because maybe — just maybe —12Please respect copyright.PENANAe7vVHAd9ED
that was her way of saying:12Please respect copyright.PENANAxVkkcy86Sr
“Don’t go.”12Please respect copyright.PENANArv0RFU1Aql
Maybe it was never about deletion.12Please respect copyright.PENANAVrPo7PTsVM
Maybe it was her final scream in disguise,12Please respect copyright.PENANABPchKu2c1S
a plea wrapped in anger,12Please respect copyright.PENANAivNrdXVYya
a heartbreak dressed like defiance.
And I couldn’t read between the lines.
Maybe this was right.12Please respect copyright.PENANAXJjRbPqmQq
Maybe wrong.12Please respect copyright.PENANAyVJaqcQCJC
I don’t care to think anymore.
I stayed —12Please respect copyright.PENANAHl4Q3w2ilc
hoping I meant something to her.12Please respect copyright.PENANAJTXCMs6neA
Everything.
From the songs and movies12Please respect copyright.PENANAKAkqXyniZj
to the words and shared silence,12Please respect copyright.PENANAA5AquOiXki
every little moment,12Please respect copyright.PENANAwFiaSdE1jP
every ounce of friendship —12Please respect copyright.PENANAlOfEDftcoZ
they were enough for me.
And so I wanted to end it.12Please respect copyright.PENANABN9tXyvQSr
Before she got the chance to.
Because I noticed the distance.12Please respect copyright.PENANA9Uv0F9eALG
How she tried to avoid me.
Even if she said she never meant to.
That’s what made me do this.12Please respect copyright.PENANAP1y7OS6vEK
Because I couldn’t bear to see her like that anymore.12Please respect copyright.PENANAoMuKTnEUXj
To be the reason for that discomfort.
As always.
Emotionally,12Please respect copyright.PENANAeNpu2k4n05
I wanted to stay.
Intellectually,12Please respect copyright.PENANAjbSCir8Imp
I knew I had to leave.
So I punished myself.12Please respect copyright.PENANAgIdWLDC2PF
As I always do.12Please respect copyright.PENANAcnC9jfNUZG
Breaking from both ends.
But if all of this…12Please respect copyright.PENANA67FAZzhVTG
if everything we shared12Please respect copyright.PENANAG9cK8ZgDYN
was never meant to be —
Then why,12Please respect copyright.PENANAD7Bans0qTp
why does it still feel so beautiful?