*If you had asked,
I would have told you
that I loved you in a way
that rearranged the sky.
That your name still lingers
like an unfinished sentence
on the tip of my soul.

If you had asked,
I would have said
I never wanted the whole world,
just the space between your hands.
That I watched you love others
with a softness
you never spared for me.

But you never asked.
And I have learned
that silence is its own kind of answer.

- hopelessoptimist -*

*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.