*You don’t need closure
You don’t deserve any of it
You know why I did it…
Because I’d rather leave quietly than paint a love in lies,
Draped in green flags that never belonged to us.
I’d rather vanish than feed a hope I couldn’t bear,
Than build a promise that time would only tear apart.

So I walked away
Not out of cruelty, but honesty,
Because holding on would’ve been easy,
But staying true meant leaving when I knew
The story wasn’t ours to write anymore.

- hopelessoptimist -*

*There was a time when love burned,
not in flashes, but in steady flames..
hands holding tighter
through storms,
eyes searching deeper
for truth, not escape.

Now we swipe through faces
like pages in a book we’ll never read,
wondering why the touch doesn’t linger,
why the spark fades
before it even catches.

Back then, love was a fire
you kept alive with every breath.
Now we let it die,
too afraid to let it consume us.

- hopelessoptimist -*

The pain doesn't go away, we just make a room for it.

*He wants to be loved with an unspoken understanding, the kind where words are unnecessary, where a glance holds more meaning than a thousand conversations.

- hopelessoptimist -*

A big part of I am is who I'm not.

*There’s a void,
a silent companion I never asked for,
it slips into my days,
pulls me under when I least expect it

I search for answers,
for a reason to keep going,
but all I find are the echoes
of a past I can’t escape

I cry for the years lost,
for the love that never held me,
blaming the ones who couldn’t see me
as I am, as I was

And yet, in the midst of this heaviness,
a gentle hand, a soft word,
brings light to the dark,
if only for a moment.

But the emptiness stays,
a shadow that lingers,
and I wonder if I will ever find
a way to feel whole.

- hopelessoptimist* -