Shadows Where We Sat

We used to sit
right here.
Same spot.
Same hour.

Back then
your silence
meant peace.

Now it feels
like absence.
Like a sound
missing
from the air.

I watched
the sun fall
again today.

It slid behind
those trees
like it knew
it wasn’t
welcome anymore.

I waited.
Like always.

Not for you
I’ve stopped
hoping that.

I waited
for the ache
to feel
smaller.

But it doesn’t.
It knows
exactly
where to sit
when you don’t.

There’s a shadow
next to mine.

I pretend
it’s yours.

So I don’t
have to say
what we both
left unsaid.