Some people don’t even have to be present
to change the way your body feels.
Just one thought of them
and suddenly your heart forgets how to stay calm,
your stomach folds into nervous little knots,
and memories start breathing again.
It’s scary, honestly,
how a person can live inside you like that.
How their absence still reaches you
like they never really left at all.
May 12
May 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM UTC
Some people don’t even have to be present
to change the way your body feels.
Just one thought of them
and suddenly your heart forgets how to stay calm,
your stomach folds into nervous little knots,
and memories start breathing again.
It’s scary, honestly,
how a person can live inside you like that.
How their absence still reaches you
like they never really left at all.
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