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R. Veyne Nigeria Freelancer, Writer, data analyst @ Mtn, Lean Technology
In Literature, Writing and Blogging 1 min read
THE LIGHT WAS NEVER OURS
<p>We were a sunset pretending it could outrun the night.</p><p><br/></p><p>For a while, it worked.</p><p><br/></p><p>Everything felt warm. Easy. Like maybe some things were finally allowed to stay. We laughed without thinking about endings, made plans as if tomorrow had already promised us a place in it.</p><p><br/></p><p>But the sky never belongs to the sunset.</p><p><br/></p><p>Eventually, the colours started disappearing. Not because they weren't beautiful anymore, but because night was always waiting.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe that's the part we don't like admitting about some people, some moments, even some versions of ourselves.</p><p><br/></p><p>They were never meant to stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>They were meant to show us something.</p><p><br/></p><p>How it feels to be understood.</p><p>How it feels to be chosen.</p><p>How it feels to laugh without checking the time.</p><p>How it feels to become so comfortable in someone's presence that you forget everything beautiful eventually asks us to let go.</p><p><br/></p><p>We spend so much time asking, "Why did it end?"</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe a better question is:</p><p><br/></p><p>"Why did I think beautiful meant permanent?"</p><p><br/></p><p>Some things are only given to us for a moment.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because they were fake.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because we weren't enough.</p><p><br/></p><p>But because their purpose was never to stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>We were a sunset pretending it could outrun the night.. beautiful for a moment, but never meant to keep the light.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe growing up is learning that losing the light doesn't mean the evening was a waste.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, it was the most beautiful part of the day.</p>

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