i learned this the hard way
i kept pouring love
into places
that only knew
how to leak
giving parts of myself
to people
who only noticed me
when i was overflowing
and every time
they left
i called it heartbreak
when really
it was self abandonment
maybe the deepest pain
isn’t losing people
it’s realizing
how often you lost yourself
trying not to lose them
some wounds don’t come from goodbye
they come from how much of yourself
you gave away before it