Not Everyone Stays

Some people say forever like it’s a greeting. Like it costs nothing. But when the sky starts falling, they leave without a sound. No goodbye. No reason. Just silence louder than any scream. I waited at the door with questions in my hand. But no one came back to answer them. Maybe they never planned to stay. Maybe I was just a season they passed through on their way to something better. The hardest part is not the leaving. It’s realizing they were never really here to begin with. And still I miss them. Even if they were just passing shadows. Even if they forgot my name the second they walked away.