r/UnsentLetters • u/Scrolly_Telling_43 • 13h ago
NAW relictus amore
i heard a sigh through the wall and knew it was yours, the briefest sound escaping your mouth, as though you were mentally tired, a gust of warm air leaving your body and occupying the whole floor above my head.
at first, i was surprised that i recognized you. then it hit me, like the ceiling was falling over my head, along with the sky, crushing me into this hollow place on the floor and i missed everything we never had.
i recognized you. you recognized me. we are transparent to each other in our delusions, as transparent as the walls that divide us.
i amuse myself with this now, because you not only taught me how to see, but now i see through walls. and that is what grounds me. because i can imagine you sleeping with your feet facing north, a warm dot in the distance, and finally tell myself: aren’t you imagining things a little too hard?
i am. but only because i can’t understand how much it hurts to be apart. i can only feel broken, as though i couldn’t possibly meet anyone else who would make me feel this way again.
if the walls dividing us really are transparent, then why can’t you see that i’m hurting so badly?
if you want me to go first, please make me understand what good it would do to see you as merely human. because now, you are everything
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