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When No One Is Looking

Don’t be angry that I’m saying this about you.

I only have a moment,

so I’ll set a few sentences down.

 

There isn’t enough space in this life

for the two of us,

though I keep seeing your face

in every corner I turn.

 

I won’t call you my enemy today.

Even now, everything circles back to you.

You already know how this ends.

 

Thank you for the lesson.

I don’t know how to repay you –

maybe like this:

 

When no one is looking, I fade.

Silence is easier;

it hurts less than trying to hold

what was supposed to last.

 

And if you ever come back,

I won’t be here anymore.

I’ve been dancing with your shadow

inside these four walls.

 

Three times over,

I miss you

and I don’t miss you.

I am no longer the person you knew.

 

I move through this life half‑lost,

my heart breaking quietly.

I want it,

and then I don’t.

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Written by
VerseBuster
48 / M / Poland
Published
Jan 9
Lines·Words
29·159
Notes

A poem written in the long echo after a sudden disappearance an attempt to name what remains when the noise fades and the self begins to reassemble. A companion piece to "If You Ever Change Your Mind", written from a later distance where clarity replaces longing, and the self steps out of the shadow.

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#love#absence#loss#ghosting#longing
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