Your back to me, a wall I stopped
trying to climb
So close but worlds apart
Breathing was heavy, like the air was
grieving too
You grabbed my hand and pulled it down
I knew what was coming
But inside I felt nothing- just a stillness where
love used to live
We were always two people pretending
I told the Truth until it broke me
She threw words like knives, just to watch
them stick
Life moved forward, and so did I
But when the dark gets too quiet
I’m right back there-same bed, same ache
The ache isn’t for her
It’s for the me I left behind
The Quiet Reckoning 
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