the silence feels louder than anything,
and the tears come before you even realize
you’re thinking of them again.
like a wound you keep touching,
it will hurt less this time.
It hurts in the way losing air hurts,
like your chest forgets how to breathe
The person you pictured forever with
everything feels like it’s been falling.
maybe that was your only chance at love,
that maybe love came once,
And now you sit with the ache of it,
when your heart still lives
in the last day you had together.
as if changing the memory
could somehow change the ending.
And the world keeps moving
while being terrified of it.
Wanting someone to hold you
while wanting everyone far away.
but your hands still shake
you gave someone everything
and they let it fall to the ground.
between loneliness and healing,
and trying to survive them,
between wanting to be alone
And maybe that’s what heartbreak really is
not just losing a person,
but losing the version of yourself
that believed love would stay.