AFTER LOVING YOU

We were two souls walking into dawn,

Laughing before the sun was fully born.

Your fingers rested warm in mine,

As if our hands had learned the shape of time.

In those first days, love felt so clear—

Like breath itself, unnoticed, near.

I loved you when your smile would stay,

When silence knew the words to say.

I loved you when my name still lived

In every look your eyes would give.

Then something unnamed slipped in between—

No shattered scene, no parting scream.

Just distance growing, slow and wide,

Like lengthening shadows learning night.

I loved you when your eyes looked past,

When laughter found a different path.

I loved you in the truths unsaid,

In questions turning cold instead.

I loved you without claim or plea,

Without a right to ask for me.

I loved you knowing love, once known,

Does not always return us home.

But loving you taught me this truth at last:

That some hearts meet, but cannot last.

I loved you when I let you go,

Not because I wanted to—

But because staying hurt me more

Than walking through that final door.

I did not leave because love was gone.

I left because it moved on.

And still, I carry what we were—

Not as regret, not as a scar,

But as proof

That I once loved,

And that was enough.

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