The Ashes of burnout spark, p.5

Instead, you vanished. I wasn’t asking you to stay forever, I was just asking you not to disappear without a goodbye.

I tried. I reached out.

even when I knew the chances were small. I thought maybe if I just said the right thing, if I gave you the space, if I was patient enough...You’d hear me.

But silence greeted me every time, and every attempt felt like a stone thrown into an endless ocean, never to be heard again. You didn’t owe me an explanation, but a part of me kept hoping, you’d come back and tell me why you left without a word.

Every day, I crave the kind of love that makes me feel whole, like I could belong to someone, like I could hang the moon just by being close to them. But the world remains silent, nobody approaches, nobody looks at me like I matter. And in the stillness, I remember you. I remember how it felt to be seen by you, to be wanted by you, as if I were something worth holding onto.