I folded my dreams into corners
sharp enough to cut me
just so you\u2019d have room
to unfold yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I told myself
love is sacrifice.
That shrinking is a kind of gift.
That silence means strength.
That maybe you’d notice
the ache in my absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But you didn\u2019t.
You walked lighter,
because I carried what you wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I stopped asking.
Stopped wanting.
Stopped dreaming.
I peeled my needs down to the bone\u2014
air, sleep,
a hand on my back,
a voice that says I see you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even that
was too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You didn\u2019t just forget me.
You erased me.
Made me ghost myself.
I vanished in service of your becoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And still\u2014
I mattered.
Even if you wouldn\u2019t say it.
Even if I forgot.
Even if it almost killed me
to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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