THE LOUDEST SILENCE

you left no message
but the silence
keeps echoing you
in the shadow

i mouth your name
like a forgotten prayer
not to summon you back
but just to remember
how it once sounded

time, no words
and yet it still feels like
we are in something
not together, not apart
just suspended
like the last sentence
before a page break
so much said
in this silence

never speaking again
crystallizes a relationship
into something
untouchable

a definitive end
becomes a tomb
for what once lived
and just as you do not open
a grave
without reason
you do not revisit a relic
without disturbing
something sacred

isn't it strange
how never speaking again
feels like the loudest thing
you ever said?

some hearts fall silent
not from absence of care
but from an ocean of it
the kind of love
that knows silence
is the only true goodbye

we started as strangers
and now we are
strangers again
but with memories

and not every ending
needs a sound
some love just lingers
underground
like letters
forever left in drafts
or maps planned
but never traveled

your time still flies
in my clock
your space still moves
in my world
places i visit
when i feel most alone

some bonds echo quietly
yours still does
and maybe that is why
some part of me
still waits for a sound
on the other side

the intimacy
in never speaking again
in the ache of a heart
once wide open
now gently closed
to protect what was real
what was raw

i let you go
softly with hope
that life gives you
the joy
i once dreamed
of sharing
with you

and maybe silence
says it best

we were real
though never pressed

and we meant it
even in our leaving