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Freelancer, creative writer and virtual assistant @ University of Abuja
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What We Left Behind
<p>What We Left Behind</p><p><br/></p><p>I still find pieces of you</p><p>in songs that suddenly feel heavier,</p><p>in quiet rooms,</p><p>in moments I wish I could relive.</p><p><br/></p><p>We were once a language</p><p>only we could understand,</p><p>two hearts speaking without words,</p><p>until somewhere between the silence</p><p>and the distance,</p><p>we forgot how to translate each other.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now your name is just a memory</p><p>I don't dare to remember,</p><p>a photograph in the mind</p><p>that refuses to fade with time.</p><p><br/></p><p>I thought losing you</p><p>would sound like thunder—</p><p>Deafening and loud</p><p>but it was quieter than that.</p><p>Just an ordinary morning</p><p>when I realized</p><p>I no longer had someone to tell everything to.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe that's the cruelest part:</p><p>not that you left,</p><p>but that the world kept moving</p><p>as if nothing had changed.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I'll let the memories stay</p><p>without letting them keep me.</p><p>I'll remember what we were,</p><p>but I won't live there.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some things end</p><p>not because they meant nothing,</p><p>but because they meant enough</p><p>to change us.</p><p><br/></p><p>And if someday</p><p>your name doesn't hurt anymore,</p><p>I'll know I didn't forget you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I simply learned</p><p>how to carry the memory</p><p>without carrying the pain.</p>
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