All Unsent Messages

I keep your song on repeat, and I pretend the universe is listening. This is for the version of us that almost was. I?m learning to be gentle.

I confused comfort with love, and I wonder if you kept anything of us. I?ll carry the lesson, not the weight. I?m keeping the promise this time.

I won?t wait at the same station, and I still don?t know who I am without you. This is for the version of us that almost was. I?m keeping the promise this time.

I kept the ticket from that rainy movie, and I wonder if you kept anything of us. I?m learning to miss you with kindness.

I wait for your green dot, and I keep rewriting the past in kinder ink. Here?s to everything we couldn?t say. I?ll keep making tea for one.

This is the last time I write this, though the calendar insists we moved on. I?ll keep the window cracked for luck.

I am done cooking meals for ghosts, and somehow the world keeps happening. I?ll let the tide take the rest. I?m keeping the promise this time.

I hope you travel where you dreamed, because I?m afraid of what you?ll say back. I?ll remember you on quiet Sundays. I won?t rewrite this again.

I visit the same bench at dusk, and it startles me that you won?t answer. Here?s to everything we couldn?t say. That?s okay.

I read our old messages out loud, and I pretend the universe is listening. I forgive you. I forgive me.