After The Last Time

After The Last Time

You left without a word

and nothing looked changed.

Yet something felt different

and never settled back.

I waited for a sign

that things might turn around.

I gave the silence time

and hoped it still meant more.

I read old messages

and searched for missing parts.

As though one hidden line

would explain all of it.

No blame was left behind

no ending caused a scene.

Just slower growing space

that neither one could stop.

I stayed a little longer

than I should have stayed.

Believing time alone

could bring back what had gone.

Then truth arrived quietly

with nothing left to prove.

Some things reach their end

without a deeper cause.

So I stopped standing still

and left the past alone.

Not every closed door

needs opening again.

Now I walk forward

without asking it why.

Some things are not broken

they simply do not stay.

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