All Unsent Messages

Thank you for every small kindness and I still don t know who I am without you. We were real even if we ended.

I m sorry for leaving a knot in you and it feels like weather inside me. I hope you keep the light you found.

I looked at my phone instead of you and I keep rewriting the past in kinder ink. Here s to everything we couldn t say. That s okay.

I wear your silence like a coat and I leave the porch light on anyway. I ll let the tide take the rest. I m learning to be gentle.

I quote your favorite line to strangers because I m afraid of what you ll say back. I will keep the soft parts of us. That s okay.

I should have told you on that bridge and it startles me that you won t answer. I m choosing to breathe without you. I won t rewrite this again.

I am sorry I didn\\\’t listen and it feels like weather inside me. I hope you keep the light you found. That’s okay.

I am packing the almosts away even when the room is full of people. I’ll put the phone down now.

I hope you travel where you dreamed and my chest answers with thunder. I’m choosing to breathe without you. I’m keeping the promise this time.

I’m sorry for making you small and I collect myself in small pieces. I’ll carry the lesson not the weight.