Maybe it was jealousy.132Please respect copyright.PENANAmvSs2nQY9c
Or maybe… it was something harder to name.
That quiet ache in your chest when someone you care about starts smiling a little more —132Please respect copyright.PENANANVbr6f55ZP
but not because of you.
I kept asking myself:132Please respect copyright.PENANA8y2nFWeU75
Was I being possessive? Was I trying to cage something that was never mine to begin with?
But no.132Please respect copyright.PENANAQ9o68fBnnj
It wasn’t that.132Please respect copyright.PENANAFFH01xZMrj
It never was.
I wasn’t trying to protect you from someone.132Please respect copyright.PENANAF7DuiLChQM
I wasn’t trying to compete.
I was just scared.132Please respect copyright.PENANAWGaFDmjpXj
Terrified, actually.132Please respect copyright.PENANAbi3o1Izsyh
That maybe... Ren would take you away.
But then —132Please respect copyright.PENANAwEdXDthJ4M
one long evening, sitting with my thoughts louder than the world around —132Please respect copyright.PENANA0q4WvYaT2L
I understood something.
People don’t get stolen.132Please respect copyright.PENANAw2ja0LhE4y
They drift.
Toward what makes them feel lighter.132Please respect copyright.PENANAGDDYOLm2ia
Toward the sun they didn’t know they missed.
And sometimes love —132Please respect copyright.PENANAoQLh1b0WYT
love makes us believe that there’s nothing brighter than what we have right now.132Please respect copyright.PENANANgpVmh61aP
That this, this, is the brightest moment the world can ever offer.
But that’s a lie love tells.132Please respect copyright.PENANAVMqKGYdahn
Because love is blind,132Please respect copyright.PENANAI2O7WdtqTU
and people are not.
And so I questioned it all.132Please respect copyright.PENANAzuIt2uoxC2
Not love.132Please respect copyright.PENANAc26Wv7Hx8o
But the things we confuse for love.
The need to be someone’s only.132Please respect copyright.PENANABC9tCpVvWf
The quiet wish that they’ll never find better than you.132Please respect copyright.PENANA4CvFlLg29h
The fear that if they do — they’ll forget you ever existed.
Is that love?132Please respect copyright.PENANA4SRQPOhcuV
Or is that greed in disguise?
Maybe the worst kind of greed —132Please respect copyright.PENANAtOYoAD96J3
the one that wants to own a heart that was only meant to be held gently,132Please respect copyright.PENANAGam5TqtgSz
not gripped tight.
You see,132Please respect copyright.PENANASbolSm3edD
I wasn’t jealous.132Please respect copyright.PENANAkJZpS289E8
Not really.
I was just scared of losing us.132Please respect copyright.PENANAV1xEBEsiKx
The us we created in tiny moments —132Please respect copyright.PENANAdFT5TfZYBY
walking beside buses, laughing at nonsense,132Please respect copyright.PENANAvl7bBc7QeY
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.132Please respect copyright.PENANADpHppDf6q8
And the version of me that only ever existed around you.
But then —132Please respect copyright.PENANATgiKIZANOC
I also realized something else.
It’s not someone else that breaks two people apart.132Please respect copyright.PENANAe2zw1rYsNB
It’s not Ren. Or time. Or coincidence.
It’s us.132Please respect copyright.PENANA7eN7WKZP4t
Me. And you.132Please respect copyright.PENANAsMJDiKJ1ZY
Choosing, or failing, to hold on.132Please respect copyright.PENANAYxyUApYbLa
Letting go, not because someone better came along…132Please respect copyright.PENANACca0wpQY8B
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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