In Between
When the sense of loss ends,
longing finds you.
Not in a crazy way,
but in the quiet where emptiness lives
There,
You meet the one who is in between.
Your connection to your before and after
the pause to help make sense of what broke,
the push to make the ending happen,
The bridge that teaches you how to walk forward again.
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They do not stay.
They help you transition.
They change the old patterns in your skin,
Challenge the beliefs you built as a fortress,
reveal parts that you never knew existed,
to make space for who you’re becoming.
And one day,
You outgrow each other.
Not because it was not meant to be
But because it worked
When that moment comes,
your roles in each other’s lives slowly disappear.
No hard feelings. No what-ifs. No rewrites.
Just the bittersweet truth:
Some people are meant to be chapters,
not the whole story, but
the necessary in between.
