Funny how you can love someone so loud…

And they can stay silent like it’s nothing.

I gave you everything I had, every laugh, every bruise,

You gave me mixed signals like I had something to prove.

I kept calling it connection just to make it feel right,

But I was holding up the sky while you just watched me fight.

I carved your name into my habits, made you part of my day,

You carved mine into convenience, then just looked away.

And I kept hoping if I stayed, you’d learn how to care,

But you can’t teach someone to feel when nothing’s really there.

They call it love, I call it drowning while you breathed,

I thought you were reaching out, but you were just watching me bleed.

You never loved me, you just liked being needed like that,

I stood there with my heart wide open — you never reached back.

I romanticized your distance like it meant you were deep,

When really you were just detached, using silence to keep

Me guessing, overthinking, tracing ghosts in your eyes,

I confused your lack of effort with a heart in disguise.

I called it heartbreak, but let's call it what it really became:

Me loving you alone while you forgot my name.

And nobody warns you that devotion can rot,

That holding on with both hands still means you're holding a lot...

Of nothing.

Maybe you weren’t cold — maybe I just burned too bright.

Maybe I wanted love so bad, I mistook absence for light.

Look, I ain’t saying you’re a villain, maybe I’m just the fool,

Who thought loyalty could matter in a heart that don’t move.

I wrote poetry in silence trying to give us a shape,

While you were busy moving on, already planning escape.

And yeah, I’d still choose you even knowing the cost,

That’s the sickest part — I’d still die just to feel something lost.

Call it tragic, call it broken, call it love or a trick,

I just know I begged for warmth — and you stayed cold as a brick.

They call it love, I call it drowning while you breathed,

I thought you were reaching out, but you were just watching me bleed.

You never loved me, you just liked being needed like that,

I stood there with my heart wide open — you never reached back.