The space between
You took my breath away,
and I felt more alive in your arms.
I found my shelter in your eyes,
never knowing the breath you took
would take the life out of me.
I’m not dead, not in body,
but something in me has gone quiet.
Broken by your wounds,
I should have trusted my head,
but I followed my heart.
I didn’t only fall for you,
I lived in the future with you.
I wanted you to be my home,
my comfort, the one who’d hold my heart
like a diamond, not a stone.
It cost me more tears than laughter,
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and I learned, in one quiet moment,
that a single mistake of mine
was all it took for you to close the door,
leave it locked,
and I’ve cried every day since.
While we were talking,
you wore your sadness and your loneliness
where the world could see.
Then we stopped,
and the sadness left you.
Now you’re happy with someone else,
and I’m left wondering
if I was only the space between.
Still, I hope for the day I heal,
when I think of you
and feel no pain at all.
#poetry #healing
