Unnoticed

I left quietly, not because I am kind, but because I have always been easy to ignore. You kept speaking about your day, your worries, the small disasters that never included me. And I stood there, already halfway gone, nodding like a stranger who had mistaken your life for something he belonged to. There was no moment, no breaking, no storm, just the slow understanding that I could disappear. and your world, would not even shift enough to notice the absence of me. So I left properly then, in my mind first, then in my body. You smiled at me as if nothing had changed, and that, more than anything, proved that everything had.