Maybe it was jealousy.133Please respect copyright.PENANAytwpvnmpGc
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —133Please respect copyright.PENANA6xse8ecSvK
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:133Please respect copyright.PENANAufUEhhzppx
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.133Please respect copyright.PENANArZEtxI2ctH
It wasn’t that.133Please respect copyright.PENANA77jpHw6jUB
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.133Please respect copyright.PENANAwvkpD0buHB
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.133Please respect copyright.PENANAhpW04B4LBL
Terrified, actually.133Please respect copyright.PENANA7QE5iwau6C
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —133Please respect copyright.PENANArleCjyAKKw
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —133Please respect copyright.PENANAH6JIhrQPIu
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.133Please respect copyright.PENANANcVa46cVob
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.133Please respect copyright.PENANAet2g2RZtxl
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —133Please respect copyright.PENANAO1V5Hpq8MJ
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.133Please respect copyright.PENANAaTAFIH3ryr
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.133Please respect copyright.PENANA0z42uwrSfo
Because love is blind,133Please respect copyright.PENANA81xYT6Fp5H
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.133Please respect copyright.PENANAkebJ011jVu
Not love.133Please respect copyright.PENANAxrftjBRT6S
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.133Please respect copyright.PENANAShGHiGtpVa
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.133Please respect copyright.PENANAdI360draeW
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?133Please respect copyright.PENANAcVyrII6N75
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —133Please respect copyright.PENANAmG5gRguF6G
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,133Please respect copyright.PENANAifkpKPRq2n
not gripped tight.
You see,133Please respect copyright.PENANArM7FffjCiF
I wasn’t jealous.133Please respect copyright.PENANAAfvZXAsfjs
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.133Please respect copyright.PENANAikOoDo545i
The us we created in tiny moments —133Please respect copyright.PENANAy67r7lIhYc
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,133Please respect copyright.PENANABEt0MXt8kV
holding on to silences like they were the most honest things we ever said.
I was scared of losing that version of you I named Forevermore.133Please respect copyright.PENANApx0iIasoP9
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —133Please respect copyright.PENANAZhgHxNqeQ8
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.133Please respect copyright.PENANAND9hKdDwjX
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.133Please respect copyright.PENANAVhfivWEyZw
Me. And you.133Please respect copyright.PENANAVyPnq3CzDI
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.133Please respect copyright.PENANA2Zr7TAOPId
Letting go, not because someone better came along…133Please respect copyright.PENANA5Z4DhTXUAR
but because we forgot how to see each other like we used to.
And that’s what broke my heart the most.
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