

I don't remember what you said
I'm not sure you said anything at all
Just the way you stayed
When everyone else had somewhere else to be
The room felt different with you in it —
Quieter
Safer, somehow
I didn't know what to call it then
Didn't know I was storing it away
For later
But here I am — still carrying it
Every mile I've run
Had your silence in it somewhere
Were you there —
Did you know what you were doing
Just by staying?
Did you see something in me
I couldn't see?
Or were you simply —
Just yourself
And that was enough
To change everything?
Were you there
Miles from where you are now
Don't even know if you think about those days
But sometimes, mid-stride —
Something stops me
A quality of light
The way a room goes quiet
And I swear I feel you
Standing just behind the moment
Not gone
Just somewhere I can't reach
I've tried to find the words
Turned them over in my hands
Like something I don't know how to give
You were there —
Not with advice
Not with direction
Just present
Just the weight of someone
Who believed without saying so
That's what I carried —
That's what got me here
You were there
I never said it —
And the longer I run
The more it weighs
Not regret
Something heavier than that
The kind of debt
You can't repay —
You can only carry
And hope they know
I hope you know
You were there —
In the silences I mistook for nothing
In the patience I didn't deserve
But somehow received
Every door I walked through
Had your shadow in the frame
Every time I didn't quit —
There was something of you in that
I am not who I am
Without who you were
You were there
Quietly
Completely
Without asking anything back
And I'm still learning
What that means —
Every single day
I keep going
You were there
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