We built a life on promises whispered late at night

Laughed in the kitchen, cried in the hallway

Forgave a thousand times

But there was one we couldn’t find our way through

I found the messages

Hidden in your phone like a landmine

I looked in your eyes and didn’t recognize home

You said it didn’t mean anything

But it meant the end of everything I ever known

I screamed in the soundless nights

You slept beside me like nothing

And I counted the years backwards

Trying to figure out when we stopped touching

Falling to pieces

Shards of holidays, burned dinners, broken vows

The silence louder than any fight

I left, or maybe you did

We never said who went first

You moved out on a Thursday

Said it was for space

I didn’t fight you

Because I didn’t know who you were anymore

I folded your clothes anyway

Out of habit

Out of love

Out of not knowing what else to do

Weeks turned into months

Sleeping without the ache

Then one day, I didn’t cry at all

And I hated that

Falling to pieces

Not because we stopped loving

But because we stopped looking

We stopped showing up

And someone else slipped in

To the space I thought was mine [Bridge]

One night you called

Your voice softer than I remembered

You said you missed the way I used to laugh

I said I forgot how

We met at the old diner

You ordered the same thing, still picked off my plate

We didn’t talk about the betrayal

We talked about the before

Falling to pieces

But somehow finding hands in the rubble

Looking at each other through the pain

And seeing the people we used to be

Still there

Still worth fighting for

We’re not who we were

But maybe we’re still enough

No illusions

No armor

Just the quiet knowing

That we almost lost everything