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Student,writer, Graphics Designer @ Federal university,Oye Ekiti
Akure, Nigeria
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I SAID I WAS FINE
<p>I said I was fine</p><p>when you asked how I was.</p><p><br/></p><p>I smiled,</p><p>because telling you the truth</p><p>would have meant admitting</p><p>that you were the reason</p><p>I was hurting.</p><p><br/></p><p>I said I didn't care</p><p>when you stopped choosing me.</p><p><br/></p><p>But I cared.</p><p><br/></p><p>I cared every time</p><p>your name appeared on my screen.</p><p>I cared every time</p><p>you walked past me</p><p>like I was someone</p><p>you had never known.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the hardest part?</p><p><br/></p><p>You never promised me forever.</p><p><br/></p><p>You never told me</p><p>that you would stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet somehow,</p><p>my heart built a home</p><p>inside the little pieces of love</p><p>you gave me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I held onto your words</p><p>long after you forgot saying them.</p><p><br/></p><p>I remembered the little things</p><p>the conversations,</p><p>the laughter,</p><p>the moments when</p><p>I thought maybe</p><p>you felt it too.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that was my mistake.</p><p><br/></p><p>I loved you</p><p>in a language</p><p>your heart never learned.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I became good</p><p>at pretending.</p><p><br/></p><p>I smiled when I wanted to cry.</p><p>I laughed when I wanted to ask,</p><p>“Why wasn't I enough?”</p><p><br/></p><p>I told everyone</p><p>I had moved on.</p><p><br/></p><p>But sometimes,</p><p>when the night becomes too quiet,</p><p>I still wonder</p><p>if you ever think of me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because I want you back.</p><p><br/></p><p>But because a part of me</p><p>still wishes</p><p>that what I felt</p><p>meant something to you.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe one day</p><p>I will stop looking for answers</p><p>in the silence you left behind.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe one day</p><p>your name will just be a name.</p><p><br/></p><p>And my heart</p><p>will no longer ache</p><p>when I hear it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Until then,</p><p>I will keep healing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Quietly.</p><p><br/></p><p>And if anyone asks me</p><p>how I am</p><p><br/></p><p>I won't say I'm fine.</p><p><br/></p><p>I'll say,</p><p><br/></p><p>“I'm learning to be.”</p>
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