I didn’t expect your name

To still feel like a bruise,

Or your voice to undo me

In the quiet way it did

We talked like strangers

Who knew each other’s wounds,

Careful not to touch

What still hurt to name

You asked how I’d been

I almost told you the truth,

How leaving you felt like

Learning to breathe underwater.

There were moments

I saw the old us flicker,

In the way you smiled,

Before you remembered why we broke

I don’t know if this is fate

Or just unfinished sentences

Finding their way back home

But I know this,

Seeing you again reminded me

That some loves don’t end loudly

They just wait