Chapter 8: "The fragments"

You left me in pieces,

First your laughter,

Then your gaze,

Until even your silence disappeared.

I held the fragments

Desperate to piece you together

But I was only clutching air,

And the emptiness you left behind.

Author's Note*

I felt you slipping away long before you were gone. It wasn't sudden—it was the quiet unraveling of everything I thought we were.

And by the time I realized we were already a memory.