I Let You Go to Save Us

We stopped laughing the way we used to do, The “I love you’s” started feeling untrue. I saw the cracks before they spread too wide, So I broke my own heart — just to protect your side. I watched us fade while screaming inside, Like drowning slow with no place to hide. So I shattered the world we built with care, Just to save the pieces still left there. But now the silence cuts like jagged glass, A hollow echo of a love that couldn't last. The ghost of us haunts every empty room, A lingering shadow of impending doom. I carry the weight of all we've lost, A heavy cross, a bitter cost. Your absence is a ache I can't erase, A permanent ache I can’t replace. And in the dark, I wonder if you feel, The ache that’s real, the wounds that heal. Or are you gone, just a distant star, Fading further, leaving scars? I wish I could undo the pain, Unwrite the past, break free from the chain. But love, it’s brutal, it’s raw, it’s true— And sometimes, we just can’t make it through. So I did what was needed to do.