You Made Your Choice - ArlenaZara
You left without noise
No slammed doors, no fight
Just the sound of your absence
Settling in at night
You packed up your feelings
Before I knew to ask
And I watched the love we had fade into the past
You did into the past
You didn't say goodbye
You just stopped staying
You left without noise
Without warning signs
No broken promises
Just unfinished lines
I stood in the quiet
Trying to understand how someone can leave without taking my hand
Your name still hangs in rooms
You don't belong to now
Your side of the bed still knows how you lay down
I replay every moment
Looking for where I failed
But silence isn't something
I could have fixed or held
You made your choice
While I was waiting
You left without noise
Without warning signs
No broken promises
Just unfinished lines
I stood in the quiet
Trying to understand
How someone can leave
Without taking my hand
If you'd screamed or slammed the door
Maybe I'd heal faster too
But you slipped away so gently
I didn't feel it until you were through
Now every quiet moment
Feels heavier somehow
Because you taught me
How loud silence can sound
You left without noise
But it shattered my peace
Left ickles in the places
You used to be
I don't hate you for leaving
I just wish you'd been kind
Enough to let me hear it
When you left my life
Some goodbyes whisper
And hurt the longest