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WHY DO YOU JUST GO OFF
<p><br/></p><p>Why do you just go off</p><p>Like a light that never warned the room it was leaving.</p><p>One moment you were warmth</p><p>The next moment I was learning the shape of cold.</p><p><br/></p><p>You didnāt argue</p><p>You didnāt explain</p><p>You didnāt even leave a door half open.</p><p>You just went quiet</p><p>And silence did what shouting never could</p><p>It broke me gently</p><p>Then completely.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why do you just go off</p><p>Like I didnāt memorize your moods</p><p>Like I didnāt read your pauses</p><p>Like I didnāt learn to love you in the spaces between your words.</p><p><br/></p><p>I keep replaying the last normal moment</p><p>Wondering if I smiled wrong</p><p>Loved too loud</p><p>Or cared in a way that felt heavy to you.</p><p>They say love should feel light</p><p>But nobody warns you that light is the first thing to disappear.</p><p><br/></p><p>You left without leaving</p><p>Your name still sits in my chest</p><p>Your absence still answers my thoughts</p><p>I text you in my head</p><p>And wait for replies that never come.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why do you just go off</p><p>When I was still choosing you in rooms you had already walked out of.</p><p>When my heart was still setting a place for you</p><p>Like you promised youād return.</p><p><br/></p><p>Now I understand</p><p>Some people donāt leave with footsteps</p><p>They leave with distance</p><p>With delays</p><p>With changed tones</p><p>Until one day</p><p>You realize youāre mourning someone</p><p>Who is still alive</p><p>Just unreachable.</p><p><br/></p><p>If loving you was a mistake</p><p>Why does it still feel like the truest thing Iāve ever done.</p><p>And if leaving was easy for you</p><p>Why does staying broken feel like my punishment.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why do you just go off</p><p>And leave me here</p><p>Explaining your absence to a heart</p><p>That never agreed to let you go. š</p><p><br/></p><p>I MISS YOU, NANAĀ </p>
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