I knew we weren’t forever.
Somewhere deep down
I felt the cracks forming
long before the ending came.
Still—
when you left,
it hurt more than I expected,
like knowing a storm is coming
but still getting caught in the rain.
I’m not pretending
it was all your fault.
I know I made mistakes too,
said things wrong,
handled things badly,
let distance grow where love should’ve been louder.
But what I keep asking myself is—
why didn’t you stay?
Why didn’t you try
to fix the broken pieces with me?
Why didn’t you wait
long enough for us
to figure it out?
Love isn’t perfect.
It bends, it stumbles,
it asks people to hold on
even when things feel messy.
I knew we might not last.
But I thought
if we both cared enough,
you’d stay a little longer
and try to make it work
instead of letting go
when it got hard.
So now I sit with the ending,
knowing I wasn’t blameless—
but still wondering
if things would be different
if you had chosen
to fight for us too.
Mar 9
Mar 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC
I knew we weren’t forever.
Somewhere deep down
I felt the cracks forming
long before the ending came.
Still—
when you left,
it hurt more than I expected,
like knowing a storm is coming
but still getting caught in the rain.
I’m not pretending
it was all your fault.
I know I made mistakes too,
said things wrong,
handled things badly,
let distance grow where love should’ve been louder.
But what I keep asking myself is—
why didn’t you stay?
Why didn’t you try
to fix the broken pieces with me?
Why didn’t you wait
long enough for us
to figure it out?
Love isn’t perfect.
It bends, it stumbles,
it asks people to hold on
even when things feel messy.
I knew we might not last.
But I thought
if we both cared enough,
you’d stay a little longer
and try to make it work
instead of letting go
when it got hard.
So now I sit with the ending,
knowing I wasn’t blameless—
but still wondering
if things would be different
if you had chosen
to fight for us too.
I thought he was the one...Turns out I was listening to my heart instead of my head...
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