The Quiet Exit
He wasn’t fragile—he was tired,
tired of holding back floods behind his eyes.
No one told him sadness could be sacred,
that tears aren’t weakness, but proof of staying.
So he left in the quietest way possible,
and we buried him with all the words he never said.
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