All Unsent Messages

I hope you forgive yourself too and it startles me that you won t answer. Here s to everything we couldn t say. You don t have to answer.

I hope you remember the good parts and it startles me that you won t answer. Maybe in another life we make it. This is enough.

I hope your friends hold you close and I wonder if you kept anything of us. If you ever need me I ll understand if you don t call. That s okay.

Thank you for the shared playlists and I leave the porch light on anyway. I will keep the soft parts of us. I m learning to be gentle.

I m sorry I kept score and I still don t know who I am without you. I ll let the tide take the rest. I won t rewrite this again.

I looked at my phone instead of you and I keep asking the moon for advice. I forgive you. I forgive me.

I count the steps to your door and somehow the world keeps happening. We were real even if we ended. I ll keep making tea for one.

I m sorry I laughed when you cried and I tuck the ache into my sleeve. I m letting this be my goodbye. I mean this kindly.

Thank you for the soft reminders and it startles me that you won t answer. I m choosing to breathe without you.

I hope your plants keep thriving and somehow the world keeps happening. This is for the version of us that almost was. That s okay.