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We don’t fight anymore. We just pause— mid-sentence, mid-step, mid-heartbeat. You make coffee in silence. I sit in your shadow. And still— we stay. The love is bruised. Not dead. Not quite. It breathes in sighs, in dishes washed, in beds made but untouched. We speak in glances now. Wounds unwrapped but not cleaned. You wear guilt like cologne. I breathe it in because it smells like you used to. People ask why. Why stay? Why linger in the echo? And I say: Because even the ghost of you feels more like home than any freedom could. We promised on nights we don’t remember sober. We whispered vows into skin like it would last. It didn’t. But we did. Not happy. Not whole. But here. Still here. Still trying. Still, we stay.
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You pour your coffee, I watch it drip No words, just sips and sinking ships The love is there but wrapped in grey No fight, no flight—still, we stay The silence louder than before But leaving’s something we ignore Still, we stay, though love has stalled Two hearts in pause, too scared to fall We don’t touch, but we don’t leave We live in something we don’t believe You read your book, I fake a smile Each moment stretched another mile We share a space that feels like glass Afraid to speak, afraid to ask We loved so loud Now live so low I want to run But have nowhere to go Still, we stay, with hollow grace No fire left, but we won’t erase The ghost of us, this quiet play We don’t believe—but still, we stay
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