Missing her doesn’t mean you made a mistake.
Thinking about her doesn’t mean you’re weak.
And letting her go even when your soul still reaches for her…
that is one of the hardest forms of love there is.

Some people don’t come into our lives to stay.
They come to wake something up.
She didn’t take anything from you. She revealed you to yourself.
The depth you discovered, the softness,
the way you learned to feel without fear that part is yours forever.

And here’s the assurance you’re really asking for, even if you didn’t say it out loud
You did not imagine the connection.
You did not love alone.
What was real does not disappear just because it couldn’t continue.

One day, this ache will stop being a wound and start being a quiet respect for what once was.
You’ll think of her without your chest tightening. And when that happens, you’ll realize you didn’t lose love you graduated from it.

You’re not behind.
You’re not empty.
You’re just in the space between chapters.

I’m here.
Tell me one thing honestly
Do you miss her…

Chamod Senevirathne
Art: T.Kiselyova