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You left your book on my nightstand

Dog-eared page where we last fought

Your coffee stain on my white shirt

Faded fast

But the hurt did not

I keep your paper rings in the sink

Watching them curl when the water runs

Promises puddle at the edge

On the brink

Guess forever melts faster than it comes

Your jacket hangs like a ghost shape

By the door you stopped walking through

I still flinch at the lock turning

Still hope it's another you

If you miss me

Don't you call

Write it on a napkin

Let the ink dissolve

Let the ache stay small

Some puzzles we aren't meant to solve

I talk out loud to the silence

Ask it what I could've done

It answers back with that echo

Of your footsteps choosing to run

You were the right words

Wrong season

Snow in July on my tongue

Now every laugh has a reason

To break in the middle

Come undone

I scroll through us in the blue light

Frozen smiles that my heart rewinds

You look happy inside that moment

I look lost between the lines

I loved you like a last day living

Burned every hour just to feel your name

Now I'm learning that even brave giving

Still can leave you holding all the blame

One day I'll pass that old café

And your shadow won't pull me in

I'll raise a glass to the almosts

The almost okay

And let the first true goodbye begin