The Empty Space Beside Me
We learn how to hold on. We are told to keep the people we love close. But no one teaches us how to survive the fall when you love someone you will never stand next to again.
It is a quiet, heavy kind of pain. Most love feels like building a house together on solid ground. But this love feels like dropping into the dark. It is the realization that someone can walk into your life, change your whole world, and then walk away forever.
You left your imprint in the quiet space,
A ghost of a smile I can’t erase.
My hand still reaches for the air,
Looking for you, but you’re not there.
We shared the light, we shared the flame,
Now all that’s left is a quiet name.
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I step ahead, but I look behind,
To the only love I’ll never find.
The Quiet After
When a person leaves for good, your mind holds onto the smallest things:
- The exact sound of their laugh.
- The warmth of their hand in yours.
- The easy way you spoke without using words.
The hardest part is not that the love is gone. The hardest part is that the love is still here, but there is nowhere left to put it.
You keep walking forward. You go to work, you see your friends, and you live your life. But you always feel the empty space beside you.
Yet, there is beauty in this pain. Loving someone you cannot keep proves that your heart was brave. It means you were willing to give everything, even for a moment that could not last. Time will soften the hurt, but you will always carry a piece of them with you.
