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A Letter To My Best Friend
<p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>What made you like this?</p><p><br/></p><p>Why the sudden distance?</p><p><br/></p><p>When I asked you said you didn’t know.</p><p><br/></p><p>It just happened.</p><p><br/></p><p>You got caught up with work and school and you got busy.</p><p><br/></p><p>But is that really true?</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought we were good friends.</p><p><br/></p><p>I guess not.</p><p><br/></p><p>So why then?</p><p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>Why let an nonexistent reason create this void between us?</p><p><br/></p><p>There’s something I never told you.</p><p><br/></p><p>For a long time you were one of the most important things in my life.</p><p><br/></p><p>Till you left without a warning.</p><p><br/></p><p>Without saying goodbye.</p><p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>Please tell me why.</p><p><br/></p><p>The weight of not knowing why you left hurts more than the way you did.</p><p><br/></p><p>I still remember the person I met at the beginning.</p><p><br/></p><p>Shy.</p><p><br/></p><p>Unresponsive.</p><p><br/></p><p>Who wouldn’t reply to messages for the fear of saying the wrong things.</p><p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>It took me a while to accept that you’re no longer in my life like you used to.</p><p><br/></p><p>I used to think it was my fault.</p><p><br/></p><p>Whenever you told me you were busy I’d come up with a thousand and one things that could be keeping you busy.</p><p><br/></p><p>It made your silence more bearable.</p><p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>How did I go from waiting happily for your messages to wondering if my messages bothered you.</p><p><br/></p><p>From endless conversations to waiting for a message to waiting for nothing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>I’m tired.</p><p><br/></p><p>Tired of chasing something I can never catch up with.</p><p><br/></p><p>Tired of chasing something that’s already gone.</p><p><br/></p><p>I’m not leaving you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I’m leaving the version in my head where you would always choose me like I would choose you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I hope you’re happy with whatever you choose because in all I still wish the best for you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I just can’t keep destroying myself to be a part of it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Dear to whom it may concern,</p><p><br/></p><p>Fuck you.</p><p><br/></p><p>You took away my spark.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now I want it back.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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