If I knew it was going to be the last time I saw you, I would take hugged you a trivial bit tighter. If I knew information technology was going to be the final time I saw yous, I would have stayed awake and kissed you longer. If I knew information technology was going to be the last time that I saw y'all, I would have reminisced and stayed up all night dancing and listening to music. If I knew it was going to exist the terminal time that I saw you, I would have told you how much I loved yous and not held back my feelings. If I knew it was going to be the final time that I saw you, I would have studied your face up so I could remember every detail. If I knew information technology was going to be the last time that I saw you, I would have thanked y'all for all the dearest you brought into my life. But you knew it was the concluding time I was going to see you, and I didn't.

If you knew it was going to be the last fourth dimension that you saw me, why couldn't you have taken more than time to look into my eyes and embrace me? If yous knew it was going to be the last time that you saw me, why couldn't you take given me ane more bouquet of flowers? If you knew it was going to exist the final fourth dimension that yous saw me, why couldn't you lot have tried harder, loved more, and followed through with the person I believed you lot to be? If you knew information technology was going to be the final fourth dimension that you saw me, why couldn't you take said that you were pitiful and held me just a little longer? If you lot knew it was going to be the last fourth dimension that you saw me, why couldn't you have just left me with one more "I love you," ane more than dance to our favorite song? Instead, y'all left me with an emptiness in my gut that filled my mornings and nights with tears.

Things ended for yous and you didn't say much of annihilation, but I could see at that place was a story behind your eyes. For and so long, you put me on a pedestal; you encouraged me in times of weakness and supported my dreams. Something inverse for yous forth the style and you became afar. You pulled away and didn't include me like you did earlier. I didn't have the confidence or the self-worth to say to yous that you were breaking my heart, and then I held on, believing that God would hear my prayers. I wished that I had the courage to tell you that you were my best friend, my anchor in life, and that being in your arms felt like I was finally home. I wanted to tell you that even though I had been married before and had been in other relationships, you were the just man I truly loved.

Your silence said more than than any words maybe could. Information technology'southward been most a year and there are days that the silence is deafening. I imagine yous living this happy, adventurous life and looking at the new person with the aforementioned love and adoration y'all once had for me. I daydream thinking of all the songs you dance to now with her and the endless nights you stay up laughing and talking. Does she wipe your tears and nurture your soul like I did? Does she kiss you passionately and smile every time yous enter the room? Does she tell you her deep nighttime hurt in her soul because she trusts you like I did?

Perhaps I really don't want to know what you're doing or with who. Maybe for once I need to experience important and irreplaceable. Peradventure the memory of me is haunting your heart and heed because I am unforgettable and worthy. Perhaps you lot really did love me and now you feel that hurt and longing in your heart. Maybe this is how I choose to remember the end to that story.

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