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You looked at me like a door. Like you’d been locked inside this love too long and just found the key. No screaming. No slammed fists. Just eyes. Quiet. Cold. Open. And I swear— they didn’t blink. Just cut through me like a clean break. I didn’t ask where you were going. I knew. Not a place. But away. From us. From the weight of staying. From the mirror I became that started showing you everything you didn’t want to see. Your silence was surgical. Precise. Not cruel. But final. And somehow that hurt worse. I would’ve taken a fight. A name screamed. A door broken. But you just looked. And it said: “I don’t love you enough to lie anymore.” Now every time I meet someone’s eyes, I flinch. Because I know what it looks like when someone leaves without walking. You left no mess. Just memory. And the echo of a glance that still splits me open when I close my own.
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You looked at me like a cracked escape No hate, just the shape of fate You didn’t speak, you didn’t cry Just let the silence say goodbye No scream, no slam, no flames or storms Just the end in human form Eyes like exit wounds, you stared through me A soft goodbye in disguise, quietly You left the room without a step But I still feel the tear you kept I begged for more, but not aloud You vanished gently in the crowd You smiled like it would hurt less But goodbye doesn’t wear a dress (Still here... still gone... still gone...) Eyes like exit wounds, wide and red You never left, but love was dead You walked away without a sound But I still bleed where we were found
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