Shadows Where We Sat

We used to sit right here. Same spot. Same hour. Back then your silence meant peace. Now it feels like absence. Like a sound missing from the air. I watched the sun fall again today. It slid behind those trees like it knew it wasn’t welcome anymore. I waited. Like always. Not for you I’ve stopped hoping that. I waited for the ache to feel smaller. But it doesn’t. It knows exactly where to sit when you don’t. There’s a shadow next to mine. I pretend it’s yours. So I don’t have to say what we both left unsaid.