lost love
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Seeing them again makes the heart remember softness for one second before reality answers with the distance that ended it.
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The same door remains, but the woman behind it no longer mistakes hunger for love or scraps for a meal.
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Missing her later does not erase the silence that taught her what absence weighs when love refuses to show up.
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The goodbye arrived so slowly she mistook it for distance, until silence had already taught her how to live without them.
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They returned after the door had already changed meaning and loneliness was no longer enough reason to let them back in.
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Death took some people without choice; this goodbye hurt differently because the person who left was still breathing beneath the same sky.
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Some ghosts are still alive—the people who vanish without funeral, explanation, or goodbye and leave silence to do the haunting.
Between Bruises & Blooms 