Strangers With Memories

we went from every day to never again. we became strangers who know all of each other’s secrets. you said silence means peace until the silence said everything. sleep should fix things until it’s your soul that’s tired. a quiet mind is a heavy burden. the body stays until the spirit leaves first. i tried. i failed. i’m done. i tried. i failed. i’m done. tired of being the one who always understands until no one understands me. giving my all to a version of me that no longer exists. loving the wrong person doesn’t just break a heart it drains a soul. missing a version of you that never existed. people say explain yourself until they hear something they don’t want to understand. so i stopped explaining. i survived the things i thought would kill me until survival stopped feeling like victory. lost in a place i once called home. out of love. out of time. void. still here unfortunately. and sometimes walking away from everything is the only honest ending. the end of an era.