“Where Goodbye Began”

Goodbye.

It slipped from our lips
Like something we never rehearsed,
Yet somehow always knew
Would find its way to us.
We stood there—
Two souls stitched with memories,
Now slowly unthreading,
Pretending strength
While breaking in silence.
After that,
Days passed like empty rooms,
Your absence louder than any noise,
And I learned how to smile
Without meaning it.
Before the distance grew,
We fought over shadows,
Tiny words turning into walls,
Love buried beneath pride,
Neither of us willing to lose—
Yet both losing anyway.
But once,
You were my quiet place,
The warmth in my cold days,
The reason time felt kinder,
And the only truth I never doubted.
Long before the cracks appeared,
We held onto forever
As if it belonged to us,
Laughing without fear of endings,
Dreaming without knowing limits.
We didn’t realize then
How fragile even the strongest feelings are,
How easily hands slip apart
When hearts forget to hold on.
And if I walk further back—
Beyond the hurt, beyond the fall,
Before love learned how to fade—
There you were.
A stranger with familiar eyes,
A moment that felt like fate,
A beginning so soft, so certain,
It all started with a simple…
Hello.