The Space Between Goodbye
Childhood abandonment
makes you miss everyone
you've met and all of
the people you're
yet to meet.
It makes you hug
differently, and love
more passionately.
But on the flipside,
it makes you hyper-independent,
and it makes you push people
away when they get closest
to you.
I'd tell you goodbye,
but I can never bring myself
to do it.
Nobody important to me
has ever said it - not a single
one.
And so,
I linger,
in the spaces between
holding on and letting go,
waiting for someone to prove
they won't leave.
Though deep down,
I already know.
You're already gone,
and you haven't
been listening.
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