To the reader, from the fool.
So this is it.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsN1PQELnf
The last page.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOFUzkd1U6
The final breath of a story born from silence and scarred hearts.
You’ve read it.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrVzOismG3
Maybe lived it in echoes of your own.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7EXYzfmSn
Felt the ache between sentences,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIM6ff6UWX
or watched the wreckage unfold from a safe distance.
This is a fool’s story.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrlG1mM4iv
Mine.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwezwg6GkH0
Of the love that almost was,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqebENMFtP
and the goodbye that always lingered too close.
It is not a story of heroes.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSHHxJZONg
Nor one with villains.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJ3Z9lBGJp
Just two people —359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5BdP2Dj9S
one who spoke too late,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUR5ZzTVit
and one who could no longer wait.
It’s strange, isn’t it?359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlF70DK2Muw
How love can bloom from nothing,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJujHv5pAU
and still return to it.
How we spend years building bridges with words,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLAqxSWbpq
only to watch silence burn them down in moments.
I was never perfect.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09TugzP1Sh
I said too much.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxHuSOgTg9
Felt too much.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPleVtV8fTA
Held on too long.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6Pzsc1Vf9
And when it was time to let go,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FQD4TBBYR
I let go in a way only a fool could —359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLaEX5dp9C
quietly, completely, and with love still bleeding.
But what is love?359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSru2E4mXnJ
Is it the promises we keep?359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZb9DGcd0oB
Or the ones we break to protect them?
Is it found in the staying,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OpG9HxQ3b
or in the strength it takes to walk away?
We chase answers all our lives,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7DGiUYkfX
but maybe love isn’t meant to be answered.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrin8g5Icfl
Maybe it’s meant to be questioned,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1supEezBs
again and again,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOX7vjzzhdc
until we learn who we are in the asking.
And as for life—359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrM2Aj4CDRN
It doesn’t give closure.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNg5TulHk4
It gives time.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvku0AEu67
Time to outgrow.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQGbnh5R4Z
Time to forgive.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgX7rEhCk1S
Time to remember without hurting.
So this is where I leave you, dear reader.
Not with a lesson.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkMPvybP2Si
Not even with peace.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSduYfEX5a
But with the quiet truth:
Some goodbyes are final.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQ6aKjhEN2
Some aren’t.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhXGJHsw6v
But all of them shape us.
And somewhere, after this end,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtNFipDiuq
the fool will rise again.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxsKG0xQmS
A little wiser.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL43BrZ8zRo
A little emptier.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PVd0V6XMw
But still—359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPyfoJ8ZYN
hoping.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITjbNjTyDt
Still—359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Nx0Cz30v4
loving, in the only way he knows how.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1E80goKVHD
Even if it breaks him.
So if you've come this far, thank you.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSAGNQJEDU
For seeing me.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpMBzf9z5s
For listening when I had no voice left.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PtSbiT5MS
For walking with a fool who only knew how to feel.
And when you close this story of sorts…359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWLm9Ix7nc
don’t forget:
Even in ruin,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYIg1OjPN64
we find beauty.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmWjplUbu7s
Even in endings,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqbx8Xf7Tc
we grow.
And even a fool359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltDILZJBTJ
deserves to be remembered.
— The Fool,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wO725CMB0
Who Loved,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4NPIIbHnRW
Let Go,359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfNocKAfFy
And Still Looked Back One Last Time.
and then Add to home screen.