The Two Goodbyes

Yesterday, a chapter closed, and every "goodbye" was a fresh wound.

The laughter of friends felt like a requiem,their hugs both a comfort and a curse.

My heart,already heavy with the weight of ending, sank further into a silence only one person can fill.

For in the crowd of all those faces, I was searching for just one.

Amidst a sea of final words,it was her silence that screamed the loudest.

They were saying farewell to me,but my soul has been saying farewell to her for what feels like a lifetime.

The pain of leaving them is a storm—fierce, loud, and raw.

But the pain of loving her is the tide—constant,deep, and forever shaping the shores of who I am.

One is a goodbye to shared memories;the other is a forever love for a future that never was.

So let the world see the tears I shed for the friends I part with.

They are real But they will heal.

The tears I cry for her in the quiet of my soul are invisible,

for they are the endless rain of a love that never learned how to end.

Everyone walked away with a piece of my yesterday.

But she holds the blueprint to all my tomorrows.

The conflict may have stolen her voice,but it could never steal my love.

That,I will carry forever.

     

                 Aqib Hussain