Flicker

I loved like breath— loud and desperate, the only thing keeping me alive, a wildfire burning in the hollow of my chest. You were quiet— not just distant, but a silence so deep it swallowed my name, a shadow moving through rooms I could not enter. I filled empty spaces with memories of you— traced your absence in the folds of my days, whispered your name like a prayer that never found an answer. You were everything— the sun in my sky, the reason for every soft smile that no one else could see. And I— just a flicker on the farthest edge of your world, a light you never reached for. You broke me— without a touch, without trying, without knowing, like a storm passing through leaving ruin in silence.